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Time flies. The Color Grading Breakdown Series has reached the double digits! When I started this series about a year ago, my goal was to release a breakdown every week. I clearly failed at that, but at least the series is still alive and kicking! Check out this great shot captured by my talented friend Gab BT: Color Grading Breakdown Exterior shots can be tricky. But in this case, the source footage was great. It wa

I’ve been pretty busy the past two weeks, my apologies for the inactivity! But I had a good reason. SHED, the company I work for as a colorist asked me to direct a Doritos commercial for the Crash The Superbowl Contest. It was an amazing sprint and I didn’t sleep much, but I’m very happy with the end result. We had a blast making this crazy project. Check it out : UPDATE: WE ARE IN THE TOP20!!!! If

This one was tricky to grade. A commercial featuring a lot of visual effects is always a new experiment in terms of post production workflow. The entire post was done here @ SHED. There was a lot of work to do and everything had to be done simultaneously in order to meet the deadline. This meant that I had to grade the original footage and plates out of context (without having the shots composited together). Good com

Color grading can drastically change the look of an image when you show the before and after. But sometimes the hardest part of the job is not always to create a beautiful look… It’s making sure that your color grading is getting along with every shot of your project or scene. Take this exemple: The client and I were concerned that the interior shot would not match the look we established for the exterior

Here’s the first television commercial I graded from A to Z over at SHED: The grading was done using Autodesk Lustre, part of the Flame Premium family. Coming from an Adobe After Effects and Apple Color world, it was quite scary and mind boggling at first… but when you overcome the strange user interface and the different architecture, it works great. Director Ben Steiger Levine was very fun to work with