Interview: Colorist Warren Eagles, Part 2
“What Makes A Great Colorist?”
At the fresh age of 17, Warren started his career working with images as a photographer for women’s underwear catalogues.
He moved on to working at several post houses around London before earning the opportunity to work as an assistant in a Telecine suite. His first professional gig as a colorist was in 1988 on Michael Jackson’s Bad World Tour.
- Spent time watching Guy Ritchie’s telly whilst discussing the look for “Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels”
- Worked on Australia’s first Digitally graded feature film “Blurred”
- Is now a freelance Colorist in Australia and Asia, has his own grading suite, and is a founding partner of the International Colorist Academy.
You can find Warren at:
- His color grading home page
- International Colorist Academy – In-person color grading training
- ICA’s Facebook page
- His Vimeo page with screencast tutorials for Apple Color and DaVinci Resolve
In Part 2 of Warren’s Interview we discuss:
- The advantage of a more relaxed color grading schedule
- Grading a feature film
- Warren’s color grading workflow
- Evaluating the image
- Identifying the focal point of a shot
- Creating “Looks”
- Trying to match the visual production values of major television shows
- The impact of a camera’s codec on the Color Grading process
- Color Correcting DSLR footage
- Mixing RED with DSLR
- RED DPs needing to grade their dailies
- Thoughts on the kinds of cameras we’ll see at NAB 2011
- Warren’s current business
- Being a freelance colorist
- Warren’s color grading kit (Show Notes have links to mentioned products)
- Working with new clients
- ICA’s different training options
- Why you should learn to create different Looks
- The future for professional colorists
- Warren’s upcoming online DaVinci Resolve training!
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Show Notes
- Apple Color
- Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve
- CalDigit External Drives
- Resolve Control Surface
- Tangent Wave Control Surface
- BON – Korean LCD panels
- Plura LCD Solutions
- International Colorists Academy
- Warren’s Vimeo Page
- FxPhd.com
This interview is part of an on-going interview series with the movers, shaker, and thinkers involved in the field of professional color grading for moving images. When I have new episodes to release, they are released on Tuesdays. To be notified you may follow me on Twitter (@patInhofer), via our RSS feed, and on iTunes.