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Adding Style or Custom “Looks”
Of course, it’s not all about subtlety and correction. It’s often appropriate, when grading
music videos and commercials, for instance, to bring some radical visual style to a piece.
Here, too, DaVinci Resolve provides an abundance of features for manipulating unexpected
aspects of the image. For example, you can use custom curves to create an illusion of
chemical cross-processing.
The Tool Hollywood Uses
If all that isn’t enough incentive to plunge forward into the next few lessons and exercises,
keep in mind that DaVinci Resolve has become the tool of choice for some of the largest
post-production facilities in the industry, worldwide. And yet, thanks to its accessibility,
within the last several years, DaVinci Resolve has also become the go-to tool for a wide
variety of smaller boutique post companies and individual artists. Considering only projects
completed recently, DaVinci Resolve was used to grade blockbusters like “Independence
Day: Resurgence” and “X-Men: Apocalypse,” along with indie productions such as “The Big
Sick” and “A Ghost Story;” not to mention television shows including HBO’s “Westworld,”
AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and the CW’s “Arrow.”
Whether you’re looking to build a foundation of skills to enter the post-production industry
as a contributing artist, or you want to develop the ability to finish your personal creative
work in your own way, the following exercises will usher you into a much larger world of
image manipulation and artistic expression than has ever been available in the average
non-linear editing application.
Lastly, color grading is just fun! The feeling of resting your hands on the trackballs and
holding the emotion of your images in your hands is exhilarating. It’s like no other feeling
inthe world; you can make adjustments in real time, instantly see the results, and feel the
emotional impact in your heart. We believe that color correction is one of those tasks that
ismore creative than cerebral. It’s also one of those jobs that surprises you every day and
has an emotional connection that reminds us why we fell in love with the film and television
industry in the first place!
Enjoy the journey!
Grading an image (left) with curves to create a cross-processing effect (right)
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