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The Tao Colorist Curated links of news, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sunday. Issue CLXIX
A TaoOfColor.com Publication Publisher: Pat Inhofer Managing Editor: Jim Wicks
The Craft |
- Sketching and Drawing On Tone Paper - An interesting series with an artist who prefers pencil and toned paper... where the paper acts as the base
midtone. Check out Part 1 at 4:45... he talks about light, shadow, midtones and highlights. I love learning how he sees light. (underpaintings.blogspot.com)
- Are Your Costumes Telling Stories? - Colorists are often asked to impose a 'film look'. I wonder if the stock answer to that request should be the 'film look' starts with wardrobe? (nofilmschool.com)
- The Art Of Colour Rendering Skin Tones - Article showing varying skin tones... and why it is that such varied renditions seem acceptable to the audience. (redsharknews.com)
- Color Concepts and Terminology - Informative article by Oliver Peters about the history of
digital color correction and the terminology of the craft. Must read. (digitalfilms.wordpress.com)
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The Tools |
- Coloristos: Their
Impression Of The New Mac Pro - Blog post that embeds the latest Coloristos podcast, with a link to a LiftGammaGain forum thread about the same. (mixinglight.com)
- DIT LUT Conversion Utility For FSI Displays - Now available from Light Illusion for Flanders Scientific
monitors - import a LUT from virtually any system and export that LUT so it can load into an FSI display. (shopfsi.com)
- An Overview: Colorist Control Surfaces - A blog post introducing a new series for MixingLight Members covering the three major 3rd party control surfaces. Includes a discussion of WHY colorists use control surfaces in the first place.
(mixinglight.com)
- Visual Color Comparison - "We present an innovative method of representing extremely intuitive color comparisons to evaluate the color accuracy of displays." If you like CIE charts you'll like this. (spectracal.com via @tparish)
- Calibrate That Display! - Alexis walks you through calibrating a plasma using LightSpace CMS, DaVinci Resolve 10 (using a little talked about new feature) and a Klein K10 colorimeter. With an aside about the demise of plasma TVs. (vanhurkman.com)
- [Video] The Adobe Speedgrade CC Workflow - YouTube video explaining, you guessed it, the basic SpeedGrade CC workflow. (youtu.be via nofilmschool.com)
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The Business |
- Paramount Calls Time On 35mm - "Paramount has made The Wolf of Wall Street its first entirely digital feature release." No 35mm prints for distribution. (televisual.com)
- Studios Abandon Film, Small Theaters Struggle - But there's a happy ending. (indiewire.com)
- Inside The Confusing, Contradictory World Of Internet Piracy Studies - On music piracy: "Every one of these studies gets significant press coverage, but there's rarely any attempt to resolve their competing conclusions. So I decided to look just a little closer at this heap of studies, searching for a pattern." Well presented. (dailydot.com)
- How 'Upstream Color' Hit iTunes Without Leaving Theaters - Interesting article. Mostly a discussion of what constitutes 'simultaneous digital release'. (theverge.com)
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Friends & Family |
MixingLight.com is a companion membership website to TaoOfColor.com. Want to read a story listed here but not a member? A free 24-hour test drive is available. - [Podcast] Getting Out Of A Creative Funk plus... Consolidating A Multi-Reel Project - Co-founders of MixingLight answer members questions on reigniting your creativity and working with multi-reel projects in DaVinci Resolve. (mixinglight.com)
- [Video] Getting Started With
The Tangent Element - An overview from my grading suite showing how I've set up the Tangent Element. I'm experimenting with a non-traditional setup for these panels. (mixinglight.com)
- Analysing Your Image: Talking to Camera - Dan Moran
shares how he takes real-life people talking to camera and spices up the image while keeping it 'looking real'. (mixinglight.com)
- Color Correcting Long Steadicam Shots - Responding to a Member question, I take a long tracking shot that moves through several different spaces requiring several different grading setups - and demonstrate how I tackle the
challenge. (mixinglight.com)
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Outside 'The Box' |
- FCPX 10.1: Collaboration - This latest FCPx update is finally getting me to take notice of the app again. This feature is why. (larryjordan.biz)
- What Does A Grip Do? - LOVE this. Watch it. Gets really good about 2 minutes in. (filmmakeriq.com)
- Got Problems With Adobe Premiere CC 7.2.1 Update On Mac? - This one is a bit old... just clearing out the holiday
backlog of stories. Useful is you're a late straggler to updating Premiere. (toolfarm.com)
- Gearbox with Jem Schofield - After a bit of hiatus Jem's video blog for shooters is back. Even if you're not working the camera, Jem does a good job keeping you in the loop on what is going on out there. (thec47.com)
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Current Colorist Control Surface Drivers |
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Sunday Morning Fun(nies) |
- Who Needs A Mac Pro When You Can Just Paint A Trashcan - Yes. Silly. (filmmakeriq.com)
- Linear Bullet-Time - This is the classic 'bullet time' effect... from the perspective of the bullet. Sort of. Very VERY cool. (redsharknews.com)
- A Bad Lip Reading Of The
NFL - Okay. This seems like it's really stupid. And it is. Stupidly GOOD! Perfect for a Sunday Morning. Click through and stick with it. You WILL laugh. (youtube.com)
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Gear Heads |
- First Impressions Of A New Mac Pro - Comparing render times to an older iMac. (tomparish.com)
- Sony Demos Ultra-Short Throw Laser Projector - At CES. For the living room.
(redsharknews.com)
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Getting Ahead |
- Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About - Then do it on nights and weekends for
the rest of your life! Yes, this is a spoof on this long-running career advice meme. (theonion.com via @5tu)
- Frame Your Goals As Questions To Motivate
Accomplishments - (lifehacker.com)
- Review: Tick Is Clever, Colorful Way To Manage Your To-Do List On iOS 7 - (9to5mac.com)
- Outread Teaches Speed Reading - The key to Speed Reading is eliminating the subvocalizations we do when reading text. This app alters text to help you learn how to do this. (lifehacker.com)
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The Next Step is a Doozy |
- Making Waves: In The Hunt For Invisibility, Other Benefits
Seen - "tsunami waves could be bent around towns, and soundwaves bent around a room to make it soundproof." Cool ideas. (reuters.com via @rickrobinson)
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A Step Too Far? |
- Turn Your iPhone 5 Into A Predator-Vision Thermal Camera With The FLIR ONE Case -
(petapixel.com)
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Th- Th- That's ALL Folks! See you next week. Happy Grading!
5,400+ Stories Now Shared The Book Shelf
- Color Correction Handbook, Updated - Alexis Van Hurkman has updated his Color Correction Handbook, which has set the standard for learning all things color correction. (amazon.com)
- Color Correction Look Book - This is the second part of the Color Correction Handbook, exploring the creative techniques for over 200 different visual looks. A sort-of recipe book for
colorists. (amazon.com)
- The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - Read how a dozen different colorists grade the same footage with the same gear, differently. A fantastic approach to learning the craft of color grading by Steve Hullfish. (amazon.com)
- Autodesk Smoke Essentials - Walk through grading a short sci-fi film (with downloadable ProRes4444 source material) while learning the ultimate online finishing app... Autodesk Smoke. (amazon.com)
- Color Grading with Avid and Symphony - Written for version 6. Fully applicable to version 7. I was a contributor. (amazon.com)
- Adobe Speedgrade CC: Classroom in a Book - A solid book for a solid grading app. (amazon.com)
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