- Colorist : Sudip Shrestha - Pixelhouse.ae
Pixelhouse production, Dubai is providing remote color grading solution for Bahrain Media Industry.
For any sorts of business inquiry please contact dyca@pixelhouse.ae
www.pixelhouse.ae
- Colorist : Sudip Shrestha - Pixelhouse.ae
Pixelhouse production, Dubai is providing remote color grading solution for Bahrain Media Industry.
For any sorts of business inquiry please contact dyca@pixelhouse.ae
www.pixelhouse.ae
Jill Bogdanowicz actually started her career as a colorist at an exceptionally early age. At the tender age of 18 she had already landed an internship in Kodak's telecine department in Rochester that lasted for two years. Highly educated, she attended the State University of New York at Geneseo as a fine arts major and (amazingly) a physics minor where she earned her BA degree.
Following that she attended art school in Italy at the University of Siena. She lives and loves art in her personal life through her hobbies painting with oils, water colors, and charcoal. And, of course, she has her own darkroom for black and white photography.
Bogdanowicz started her work as a digital colorist at Cinesite on the first full DI, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, for Joel and Ethan Coen and cinematographer Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC. She comes from a family of imaging experts — her father spent his career as a top-level scientist at Eastman Kodak’s Rochester, NY headquarters and her sister is also a successful digital colorist.
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Professional color grading rooms require careful attention in order to ensure colors are perceived accurately. SP-50 paint is carefully formulated to match modern color grading monitor performance and, therefore, optimize viewing conditions.
A typical setup will consist of painting the wall behind the monitors with SP-50. An ideal configuration will have all walls painted with calibrated paint. The ceiling can be non-reflective black or SP-50.
17 November 2016 (Los Angeles, CA) The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) announced the winners of the 2016 HPA Awards (#hpaawards) during a gala celebration tonight at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The HPA Awards recognize individuals and companies for outstanding contributions made in the creation of feature films, television, commercials, and entertainment content enjoyed around the world.
Awards were bestowed in creative craft categories honoring behind-the-scenes artistry, and a host of special awards were also presented.
The winners of the 2016 HPA Awards are:
OUTSTANDING COLOR GRADING – FEATURE FILM
WINNER:
“The Revenant”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor Production Services
OUTSTANDING COLOR GRADING – TELEVISION
WINNER:
“Gotham – By Fire”
Paul Westerbeck // Encore Hollywood
OUTSTANDING COLOR GRADING – COMMERCIAL
WINNER:
Hennessy “Odyssey”
Tom Poole // Company 3
Whether we know it or not, properly matched capture from each of our cameras is not only the right thing to do, it is a professional expectation. When camera teams are hired to cover an event or shoot a corporate video and three cameras are to be used, there is an unspoken understanding that the footage from each device will match.
Even seemingly simple footage is actually quite complex. There is a blend of elements, from grain and noise, to exposure and white balance.
If it’s impossible to bring matching equipment, choosing all of the camera settings prior to the shoot and then monitoring and adjusting prior to shooting will make the difference.
The best bet is to try to make enough time to test and work with the cameras prior to a shoot starting to at least get them close. Usually the larger the budget, the more setup and testing time there will be, but even with no lead time, a basic knowledge of how to set up cameras is important.
Choose the frame size and rate that the project is to be delivered in and set each of the cameras to exactly those settings.
Ensure the shutter speed, also refered to as shutter angle, of each of the cameras is set the same. Shutter speed has a huge impact on the appearance of finished footage. Action sequences can benefit from overly quick shutter speeds, but a good starting place is generally around double the framerate of the camera.
Each camera is different, but there should be tools for white balance on board. Most have a number of presets, and the more professional models will allow for custom white balancing, where a white card is held in front of the camera and set as the white that is recognized by the camera.
The key is to set the cameras to a similar setting to ensure that they’re close. If they all offer custom white balancing, that is obviously the best option.
Start with each camera set to the same ISO level and adjust. Many cameras have a default ISO, but the environment, lens characteristics, sensor characteristics or other factors can determine whether the level needs adjusting to more closely match other cameras.
While some high-end cameras that shoot RAW footage can have exposure tweaked a bit in post production, setting ISO properly in-camera is essential.
Adjusting the camera’s ISO to be as low as possible while delivering a nice, balanced image is key.
Pixelhouse.ae delivered the first 360 VR underwater Video Shoot Project for sea water festival in Bahrain.
Video was shot using a special under water rig designed for gopro using 8 gopro camera setup. Entire post production was executed in pixelhouse.ae and 3D elements were integrated inhouse.
The video can be watched using any VR headset like samsung vr, oculus rift and htc vive.
If you want to create any kind of 360 VR experience you can contact us.
Sudip@pixelhouse.ae
Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) Awards nominations was announced on Tuesday for the awards in postproduction categories, which will be handed Nov. 17 at the Skirball Cultural Center.
Carol”
John Dowdell // Goldcrest Post Productions Ltd
“The Revenant”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor Production Services
“Brooklyn”
Asa Shoul // Molinare
“The Martian”
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3
“The Jungle Book”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor Production Services
HPA 2016 - Best colorist Nominee
“Carol”
John Dowdell // Goldcrest Post Productions Ltd
HPA 2016 - Best colorist Nominee (DUAL NOMINATIONS)
“The Revenant”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor Production Services
“The Jungle Book”
Steven J. Scott // Technicolor Production Services
HPA 2016 - Best colorist Nominee
“Brooklyn”
Asa Shoul // Molinare
HPA 2016 - Best colorist Nominee“The Martian”
Stephen Nakamura // Company 3
I receive a lot of requests to share the techniques I use to achieve the various bollywood/hollywood movie looks. Every week I will post tutorials and LUTs to achieve various grading styles. You can send me a sample clips to support me.
Pixel House is a full- service virtual reality production company based in Dubai. We specialize in producing end to end VR (Virtual Reality) and 360 degree stereoscopic immersive experiences using latest technology.
- Pixel level Synchronization 8k Video Delivery.
- In 1440/60, the 64GB card allows you to record 3 hrs of footage.
- Protune enabled, Flat color settings and native white balance settings.
- You can easily do hand held shootings, helicopters, go-karts, speedboat, roller coasters and etc.
Please Contact : Pixelhouse for your VR production. or mail sudip@pixelhouse.ae
The world’s most powerful, flexible and complete DI post-production solution. Mistika represents the cutting edge in DI finishing systems, offering the most modern, complete and flexible toolset available today for on-set, dailies, commercial, broadcast and feature film post-production environments.
Built on years of research, development and production experience, Mistika empowers facilities with new levels of creative power, performance and workflow efficiency, revolutionising what it means to deliver for a client. More than a simple grading system, Mistika is a complete online and finishing solution, sitting at the heart of the world’s most innovative facilities.
Mistika is a total post-production solution. With world class conform, online editing, VFX, colour-grading, stereoscopic 3D and delivery tools built in, Mistika stands as the creative foundation for any facility. All tools are instantly available, allowing creativity to be fully explored with speed and accuracy, guaranteeing the perfect end result for a client. And with the ability to jump seamlessly between tasks, Mistika removes the need to bounce media between functional areas within a post-facility; projects can be managed and completed within a single software package, without the need for time-consuming renders between production stages.
Mistika’s all-in-one platform blurs the divide between editorial, FX, colour and finishing, streamlining out-dated facility workflows and empowering operators with a new sense of artistic freedom.
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Yes. Its time for automatic colorizing black and white photos to color.
The research has long way to go before we see content aware colorize in photoshop, davinci or assimilate scratch, but proof of the concept is there exists.
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Maria Claudia Cortes '03 (M.F.A., computer graphics design) has been receiving widespread praise for her RIT thesis project, an animated Web site titled Color in Motion. The project received Best of Category honors in the I.D. Magazine 2004 Student Design Review competition, it was featured by Communication Arts Magazine in the 2004 Interactive Design Annual, and also made the pages of the December 2004 issue of Proyecto Diseno, the leading design magazine in Cortes' home country, Colombia.
Cortes joined Eastman Kodak Company in 2003, working first in Rochester and now in Bogota, Colombia, for the Technical Knowledge Management Department. She is a multimedia developer and graphic designer.
Ground Control makes LUTs. Awesome LUTs for color grading. Check their website for more info www.groundcontrolcolor.com
Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve is a high-end color correction suite replete with an elaborate control surface designed for professional colorists. It costs $30,000.
There's $1,000 software-only version that runs on Mac, Windows and Linux - Davinci Resolve Studio and Free Davinci Resolve Lite version.
Collaborative Team Work
Database Server Option to share database with multiple Resolves.
Remote grading
Edit Sizing
Real time noise reduction
Extended HDR grading controls
Motion Effects palette with noise reduction and motion blur.
Added support for DaVinci Color Transform Language, .dctl
ResolveFX Film Grain - GPU accelerated,
ResolveFX Lens Flare
ResolveFX Lens Blur
Real Time Timeline Power Mastering
UHD Limit
HDR requires high contrast with deep blacks & bright whites, not just brighter pixels. Simply making a scene brighter isn’t the solution and can skew the creative intent of a scene.
Different types of content (theatrical, live sports, local news, and music videos), benefit from different approaches. An old TV show (vintage color correction) does not require the same level of remastering for HDR that a new theatrical release would require. Creating content now in HDR provides greater flexibility, even if the final delivery format is not HDR. Expanding the dynamic range of content to improve the experience while preserving artistic intent is what we do best. Our services include a range of solutions for both existing libraries and new content creation from camera original RAW content.
HDR color grading services are available at Pixel House post production facilities in Dubai, UAE. Projects will be graded to the HDR specifications set forth by the UHD Alliance by colorist Sudip Shrestha.
Mail : Sudip@pixelhouse.ae for booking a schedule.
Senior colorist Andreas Brueckl
Andreas Brueckl is founder of the Colormeup! academy and one of Europe's most respected colorists.
In the last few years he was grading about 200 TVCs a year as well as multiple tv shows, feature films and documentaries. Beside grading he was also supervising as lead colorist.
He works as a colorist on Baselight, DaVinci Resolve, Assimilate Scratch and Nucoda Filmmaster.
Andreas Brueckl is booked worldwide, color grading campaigns for e.g.: Vodafone, CocaCola, Volkswagen, Toyota, Audi, L’Oreal, Wella, Omo, HSBC, Magnum and many more.
He has published a couple of colorgrading tutorials.
Check out his tutorial-channel on vimeo
Since December 2014 he is exclusively contracted as Lead Colorist at Imagica SEA / Pinewood Studios in Malaysia.
If you are interested in a grading session, please get in contact.
Remote grading is also possible.
Contact: email
Skype: andreasbrckl
Follow me on Facebook: Fanpage
Vimeo-Channel: https://vimeo.com/colorgrading
List of his projects: www.crew-united.com
DaVinci Resolve 12.5 combines professional non-linear video editing with the world’s most advanced color corrector so now you can edit, color correct, finish and deliver all from one system! DaVinci Resolve is completely scalable and resolution independent so it can be used on set, in a small studio or integrated into the largest Hollywood production pipeline! From creative editing and multi camera television production to high end finishing and color correction, only DaVinci Resolve features the creative tools, compatibility, speed and legendary image quality you need to manage your entire workflow, which is why it is the number one solution used on Hollywood feature films.
DaVinci Resolve 12.5 is a massive update with over 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features that give editors and colorists dozens of new editing and trimming tools, incredible new media management and organization functions, new retiming effects, enhanced keyframe controls, on-screen text editing, new ResolveFX plug-ins and much more! The re-designed node editor is easier and more intuitive to use, there are new HDR grading tools, vastly improved noise reduction, lens distortion correction, a completely redesigned Deliver page for outputting projects and a new Fusion Connect command for round tripping visual effects shots between DaVinci Resolve and Fusion!
DaVinci color correctors have been the standard in post production since 1984. There are thousands of colorists worldwide who understand the performance, quality and workflow of DaVinci. DaVinci Resolve features unlimited grading with the creative tools colorists need and incredible multi GPU real time performance. That’s why DaVinci is the name behind more feature films, commercials, television productions, documentaries and music videos than any other grading system!
Contact Us to visit our Color Grading Suite in Dubai, UAE.