r/horror • u/kismetrefining • 7d ago
r/ShortFilm • u/kismetrefining • 7d ago
Choose Your Own Adventure in 'The Call of The Wood'
r/editors • u/kismetrefining • 7d ago
Humor Creating a choose your own adventure short film for YT has been the biggest challenge of my career.
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r/colorists • u/kismetrefining • 7d ago
Feedback I created a really custom-tinted BW look and have been building it into a Choose Your Own Adventure YT featurette... It premiered today!
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r/colorists • u/kismetrefining • Jan 31 '25
Technical How much have you thought about the 'Meatwares' decompostion of the image
I made my own version of an Akiyoshi Kitaoka illusion as a fusion effect. Just kinda one of those things, but it really messes with the brain to think about how the shuttered swipes on either side of the image are exactly the same code value... yet we perceive it as different. Here's a video of me showing off my fusion effect of the effect: https://youtu.be/pYJlkCVOJug
What are y'all thoughts on the final stage of picture formation and how it guides how you shape your image?
You can learn more about the effect here. https://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/akitaoka/saishin72e.html
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Why the Blue Hair in the Super Man Trailer?
It would be intersting to see how a independent colorist would approach it...
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Why the Blue Hair in the Super Man Trailer?
From what I can tell though it is a very strong low end wash across the board elevating the luminance with a push towards red in the higher as a split tone. In every shot the shadows don't have a true black and so you can think it like in Contour where you have the floor divergence. The peak divergence is a bit tighter with a rise towards red in the highlights that gives way to blue in some shots. Some light vignetting, a pretty decent contrast curve. Not alot of good BTS shots out there to match with trailer yet though. Also the trailer is the epitome of Anti-Chaos editing... Don't think a single shot isn't center aligned. But I agree with the other comment that there is an intentionality to match the comic book look in the hair

r/colorists • u/kismetrefining • Jan 02 '25
Technique Why the Blue Hair in the Super Man Trailer?
Anybody else concerned about the look of the new Superman... Why the hair so blue and most of the shadows or the fact that the white point seems a bit shifted. Is it just to accentuate the Red Cape? Or is it a mistake.... https://youtu.be/QaXmd551_fg
r/colorists • u/kismetrefining • Dec 24 '24
Technique 2025 Fixed Node Tree
I just did a breakdown on the fixed node tree I settled on using by the end of the year. https://youtu.be/Uoq3hhwLWQI
Built it from scratch for the video and saved it off as my starting point powergrade. Would love to field thoughts and comments
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Filmbox vs Dehancer, is it possible to get the "same" look with both depending on the input?
Different flows are for different people. i've been working on developping a crazy fusion way to do film emulation with mostly stock and free dctles
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Filmbox vs Dehancer, is it possible to get the "same" look with both depending on the input?
that wouldn't really be a work around as it's whats happening automatically in the dehancer pipeline... it's a question of where do you want the effects to take place. do you want to do anything after it is been compressed down to rec.709 and put back into DW/I space
and so it raises a bigger question of where is the picture formed.
Personally, I've come around to having some of my filmic effects earlier in the pipeline... diffusion, lens flares, halation, grain are are things that are part of capturing a negative before you ever get a printed film stock. So those things happen before a final 'look contrast curve, or hue rotation and long before whatever math is used to get from DW/I to a Display Space.
People want the kodak 2383 look but it's a very neutral-ish stock cause it's a print stock... a lot of the character I feel comes from what influences the negative had.
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Filmbox vs Dehancer, is it possible to get the "same" look with both depending on the input?
Filmbox usually wins because it does it's work in AWG4/LogC4. Dehancer however does it's work in Rec.709
You can test this by pulling a stock Vendor lut and comparing it to Dehancer when you select a camera input with no tools active. I put up a couple of videos showing this if you want to take a look. https://youtu.be/HKGfSv330vo
Even when you tell it to that the input is DW/I, it still compresses to Rec.709 before inverting back to DW/I
https://youtu.be/0xnHhvj9JP4
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Colorist educators have to stop selling their own tools in courses
Any tutorial specific things I do come from other colourists asking for something specific
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Colorist educators have to stop selling their own tools in courses
I just film whatever project i'm working on and ask clients for permission as part of the bidding process.... Sadly, I'm doing some cool things that other colourists really like talking about.... just don't get the views... Like this one: https://youtu.be/E3ffw8OKKpo
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Colorist educators have to stop selling their own tools in courses
Depends... I do freelance color and vfx animations stuffs in fusion... and I just have a quick, convenient set up to record an hr of content once or twice a week... usually based off of what ever I'm working on. It is in the style of Bob Ross so not everybodies cup of tea
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Colorist educators have to stop selling their own tools in courses
That's called chasing the algorithm for views...
r/colorists • u/kismetrefining • Nov 14 '24
Color Management Dehancer... Just using Vendor Luts in it's camera conversion?
While working on figuring out how Dehancer works... ( https://youtu.be/HKGfSv330vo ). A colleague also did some testing and pointed out that pretty much everything Dehancer does is after picture formation. If you select a camera space as input and compare it to the vendor luts built into resolve... they are pretty much identical if all of Dehancer's tools are disabled. So, using the Arri lut in resolve to get to Rec.709 nets the same result as telling Dehancer that the input is Arri and disabling all tools.
Anyone else notice this, or run into issues with this.
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Nodes in videos vs pictures
convert your raw photos to DNG or other suitable input and grade them in Resolve... Use flags and clip colors to segment out your selects and delete unwanteds by media managing them out.
r/Filmmakers • u/kismetrefining • Nov 04 '24
Looking for Work Upgrade Your DP Showreel for 2025... Colourist willing to help.
Do you have a bunch of footage that could use a glow-up? I would love to chat about your needs as we turn to prepare for life in 2025 after we've finished surviving to it... You can see some of my work/portfolio at dec18studios.com or send me an email directly at [create@ded18studios.com](mailto:create@ded18studios.com)
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Despite watching tons of Youtube videos I'm still really struggling with learning some of the fundamentals of color grading. Would anyone here mind filling me in on a few gaps? I'm in Davinci.
Reach out via Dec18studios.com . I would be able to set up a time to chat and answer questions directly.
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Film Looks? - What do you look for in a tool or method?
Yeah, i'm still trying to figure out how best to package up what i'm doing in fusion... its one thing to know how it all works but then I have to make decisions on what controls should be exposed or not... so tricky. Have you heard of the Dye Sim dctl. It's not really a cross talk but something that allows you to shape spectral curves to recompose the image. I have a series of videos on how I've been using it, but it's not folded into what I'm doing in fusion where I'm only pumping out RGB as 3 transparent layers to the color page. https://youtu.be/bdFbjGj_rhg?si=f8EC69Yetgkgggen
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Film Looks? - What do you look for in a tool or method?
thanks for that... would love to learn more about the ofx your developing...
r/Filmmakers • u/kismetrefining • Oct 30 '24
Discussion Film Looks... What are you looking for in the finished product?
Curious what filmmakers thoughts are on film looks applied in the post production process. I've spent alot of time figuring out what dehancer does... especially when nothing is supposed to be happening. Also, looking at Film Look Creator in Resolve.
I feel that most approaches to doing a film look at that emmulates this or that stock is approaching the question from the wrong direction. I've been working on my own method ( https://youtu.be/LFrmrUzewVs ) to recreate the process of processing physical film by how we digitially handle the RGB code values that the camera capture and getting it so that the display is functioning like a projector screen catching projector light and reflecting back into you brain windows.
Would love to hear your thoughts as I keep dialing this unique process in. If you want check out this introdutory video on what I'm trying to do. https://youtu.be/LFrmrUzewVs and feel free to tell me I'm an idiot that has left the station.
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What are the swipes doing in this color grading video?
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Someday, I'll be added to this list...
https://www.youtube.com/@happylittlenodetrees