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Sherlock Holmes Look
Stuart Samuels (@stusam81) tweeted me this past Sunday about recreating the look from Sherlock Holmes: https://twitter.com/stusam81/status/216862025433890816 Here's the reference image he sent me: He also said that he did most of his work in After Effects, so this post will be using Colorista II. Let's get going! Here's the balanced...
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IMAG Directing
http://vimeo.com/41785721 Like I've mentioned a few times before, I work full time at a church. One of the things I do besides the original videos and running the comm. dept. is managing the IMAG team on Sundays. I've been recording a few behind-the-scenes videos of our volunteer directors for training...
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The Purple Blockbuster
Here's a look I did a good while ago (almost a year and a half ago), but it's remained one of my favorite looks I've done. I wanted to do a variation on the blockbuster look so the subject would pop, but at the time I was fascinated (for some...
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A “Low-Con” Look
Another grade breakdown, and this time back in Resolve. On a recent piece I finished (actually an accompaniment to the piece I did this grade breakdown for), I wanted to do a low contrast look. It actually ended up being a low-contrast-low-saturation look, but here's how I made it. We'll...
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My “Apocalypse” Look
Continuing the series of grade breakdowns I've started, here's a breakdown of a short I did several months ago (before I started using Resolve, so the downloadable look is for Apple Color). This is more of a high-contrast, gritty look, so I'll call it my "Apocalypse" look. We'll start with...
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