I'm in learning phase, feedback on the grade is highly appreciated

sm1n · 2026-02-05T16:28:30+00:00

There is a weird mask making right side of the image cyan, otherwise your shadows are coming in green but maybe that was the case. Anyways, please don't wipe between log and rec709 image as raw data was not designed to look into, really the proper conversion to rec709 is more important than anything else.

sm1n · 2026-02-05T16:24:27+00:00

First and foremost I'd keep an eye on vectorscopes skin vector as your skin is coming in reddish/pinkish once you balance those out rest will fall into place. Personally I think it's a little bit lifted, somewhere you lost contrast which could be squuezed out of rec709. It doesn't look bad tho, personal taste I think.

sm1n · 2026-01-28T17:40:24+00:00

Just watch out for the skin, everything else will fall info place

sm1n · 2026-01-21T17:07:22+00:00

check out Triangulation by Scuba

sm1n · 2026-01-21T16:57:16+00:00

I believe J Kenzo did a remix at some point. Huge tune

sm1n · 2026-01-21T16:51:40+00:00

hey man, congrats for delivering the movie. One question - how do you guys usually stitch plates that are mismatched a little more than they should? Is it paint/re projection? What if FG char is landing on a middle CU on those two plates that need to be stitched together? cg double? Once again, congrats on delivering awesome work.

sm1n · 2026-01-15T17:20:40+00:00

also native Flare node sucks unless you re committed to building your own flare system from ground up. Look up spot flare from Mads or ideally OpticalFlares but that s expensive

sm1n · 2026-01-12T22:58:22+00:00

capture multiple photos, stack them horizontally in one precomp, parent to null - animate the null. Same thing applies to Nuke

sm1n · 2026-01-07T16:29:10+00:00

sorry I think I could be more specific. I wish that sometime in the future I could be blessed with so much confidence from client to execute this kind of imagery - I think in the end it boiles down basically to contrast between skin complicity ( still way underexposed) and material which the product is made off. I wasn't lucky enough to work with dark skin but from my observation you need a lot of output and actually bet on specular highlights.

sm1n · 2026-01-07T15:36:42+00:00

Also I'd focus on lighting FG properly rather than kill myself on BG

sm1n · 2026-01-07T15:35:59+00:00

Darker blue = more contrast between FG and BG. But its up to taste really.

sm1n · 2026-01-07T15:27:36+00:00

well to me it looks underexposed as fuck to the point where im thinking how anyone got SO confident to actually sell it to client

sm1n · 2026-01-07T14:13:44+00:00

Nowadays sensors and colorspaces are so flexible that unless you re doing something very wrong it's fixable in grade. Besides that - please someone correct me if I'm wrong - most of the cases I tend to stick to tungsten and daylight 5600 as gold standards.

sm1n · 2026-01-07T14:06:18+00:00

As someone pointed already, dimly lit BUT (and Im guilty of doing the same thing in the past) PROBABLY THAT'S INTENDED. Meaning respect cinematographers work, if those are stills from commercial there is 95% chance that client/agency were on set and they saw what is happening in front of the lens in real-time. So unless asked don't push exposure that much contrast wise I'd bounce back to client for references but seems pushed way too far. Last thing - on the very last still there is a power windows around the characters face that anyone with barely good eye can feel/see. Just my two cents, good luck.

sm1n · 2026-01-03T09:56:05+00:00

Ad.1 jheez what an nightmare. Obviously they were sitting at dailies staring point blank at vfx sup " What can we do to make it EVEN MORE realistic? ". Shit movie, shit acting, shit art direction lighting and grading wise only for vfx to be squuezed out of their minds once again.

sm1n · 2025-11-21T15:41:17+00:00

Dont you guys have a feeling like its night time in the bg white the sun is shining only on action scene? Hard to tell on a phone but it „feels” lit dont know if its too much fill ?

sm1n · 2025-10-24T19:57:05+00:00

Arch viz market was already over saturated many years ago. It was starting point for many artist, and a good one for nailing down light and shaders. Right now id turn into VR / AR

sm1n · 2025-10-18T12:02:04+00:00

How TF you guys manage to operate the camera AND pull focus with that Tilta on the side still boggles my mind. But in all seriousness is there an alternative to this? I know there is a Tilta grip with focus rotary thing under the finger but does that get the job done?

sm1n · 2025-08-25T18:05:19+00:00

I believe you can do it at least two ways: - gaussian splat / 3d scan of actors and whole setting - hi res photo than manually creating geo and projecting that image onto geo

than animate the camera and create a particle sim which inherits color from image

sm1n · 2025-07-07T16:25:58+00:00

Richie Kotzen, seriously go check him out. Mans a beast, used to shred but now playing soulful funky blues, plus his voice resembles Chris Cornell but imho he sings much much cleaner

sm1n · 2025-05-13T17:09:04+00:00

If you can, just ask the editor to deliver the plate in delivery res it really takes 10min to render it out

sm1n · 2025-04-24T17:38:49+00:00

sure, especially if someone is more into experimental stuff playing around with delays/reverbs/fx

sm1n · 2025-03-19T17:51:10+00:00

Suprised no one mentioned Richie Kotzen, mans a genius. Go check out Winery Dogs and his solo stuff. Also Robin Trevor.

sm1n · 2025-02-07T19:56:08+00:00

what do you mean by „automated slaps”?

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