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Tushar Desai

Colorist Chat: FutureWorks’ Tushar Desai

Tushar Desai is senior colorist at FutureWorks, an end-to-end media services company based in India that specializes in VFX, post production and camera rental services.

Post credits for the studio include The Family Man and War, and VFX such shows as Westworld,

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Beatrice Tremblay

Colorist Chat: Outpost Montreal’s Beatrice Tremblay

Beatrice Tremblay is a colorist at Montreal-based Outpost, a full-service post house offering color grading, online and offline editing and post supervision.

Tremblay has been working on-site at the Outpost offices doing live and remote sessions — she uses the company’s Outpost’s OPM.Live, which is a live streaming service for high-quality video.

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Colorist Chat: Cheat Founder Toby Tomkins

Toby Tomkins is founder and senior colorist a Cheat, a 7-year-old London-based post studio that provides color, online and VFX work across television, film and commercials.Cheat’s work has been recognized by the BAFTAs, Emmys, Oscars, MTV VMAs, Royal Television Society Awards, D&AD and many short film festivals.

As for Tomkins himself,

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Colorist Chat: The Mill Shanghai’s Nikola Stefanović

Nikola Stefanović, who is head of color at The Mill Shanghai, has worked in the film and television industry for more than 20 years. He started as a 3D/motion graphic artist in 1998 at National Broadcast Corporation of Serbia and later transitioned to video editor working on spots before falling in love with color grading.

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Meet the Artist: Video Chat With Harbor Colorist Andrea Chlebak

By Randi Altman

Watch our Meet the Artist Video Chat Here.

Andrea Chlebak is a senior colorist at Harbor in Los Angeles. She works on episodic television and feature films, partnering with directors, DPs and showrunners along the way. She recently collaborated with director Adrian Lyne on the feature Deep Water,

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Derek Hansen

Colorist Chat: AFX Creative Colorist Derek Hansen

Derek Hansen is a colorist at Santa Monica-based AFX Creative, a creative studio delivering post services for the advertising and entertainment industries. They provide VFX, motion design, finishing and color grading services.

As a colorist, what would surprise people the most about what falls under that title?
What usually surprises people most about what colorists do would probably have to be the editorial side of things.

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Podcast 12.4

Colorist Chat: Envy’s Edwin Metternich

Edwin Metternich is senior colorist at Envy London, an end-to-end post facility offering offline, grading, VFX, online and sound design. A veteran colorist, Metternich worked at Framestore and Glassworks prior to joining Envy.

Let’s find out more about Metternich and how he works…

As a colorist,

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Podcast 12.4

Colorist Chat: FotoKem’s Dave Cole on Working With Dune DP

There is no denying the beauty of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, especially if you’ve seen it in IMAX or on any big screen.

To help achieve this look, FotoKem’s Dave Cole worked closely with the film’s cinematographer, Greig Fraser, ASC, ACS, who had created a color bible to follow (see our interview with him here).

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Marco Valerio Caminiti

Colorist Chat: Italy-Based Marco Valerio Caminiti

Marco Valerio Caminiti is a colorist at Rome-based Frame by Frame, a boutique offering post production, CGI, VFX, color grading, editing, sound design, mastering and delivery. Caminiti joined Frame by Frame in the role of senior colorist in early October, coming from WB De Lan Lea, where he was a dailies operator position at WB De Lane Lea while at the same time honing his skills working as a freelance colorist.

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Marvel's WandaVision

Color and Post Pipeline: The Many Looks of Marvel’s WandaVision

By Randi Altman

If you’ve watched Marvel’s WandaVision, you can imagine that the production and post workflows were challenging, to say the least. The series, streaming on Disney+, features multiple time periods, black-and-white footage, color footage, lots of complex visual effects and the list goes on.

Colorist Matt Watson and the in-house Marvel post team had their hands full and creative hats on.

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Goldcrest Colorist Evan Anthony

Colorist Chat: Goldcrest Post’s Evan Anthony

Evan Anthony is senior colorist at New York City’s Goldcrest Post, an independent post facility that provides editorial offices, on-set dailies, picture finishing, sound editorial, ADR, mixing and related services.

Anthony has over two decades of experience working on a wide variety of genres — from promo editorials to documentary feature films to small independent movies.

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Colorist Chat: American Horror Story’s Jeremy Sawyer

By Randi Altman

The 10th season of the American Horror Story anthology series is American Horror Story: Double Feature, which premiered on FX in late August. This iteration, as the name suggests, is divided into two parts: Red Tide, which takes place by the water,

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Colorist Chat: FotoKem’s Alastor Arnold on The Green Knight, More

Alastor Arnold is a senior colorist at FotoKem, a privately owned post facility that offers digital and film capabilities, including a full-service film lab. They work on features and episodics, providing digital intermediates, dailies, color, audio, visual effects and restoration of classic movies. Its family of companies includes Keep Me Posted, LA Studios,

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Colorist Chat: Tone And I Music Video’s Tight Turnaround for Kimmel

By Randi Altman

Australian artist Tones And I is back with a follow-up to her quirky and catchy global hit, Dance Monkey. Last month, she sang her new song, Fly Away, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! The performance was captured — with a combination of Red Helium,

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Colorist Chat: Okay Studio’s Ruth Wardell

Ruth Wardell is a colorist at East London-based Okay Studio, a post house specializing in offline editing, color and finishing. “We handle a lot of jobs end-to-end, which often makes the process a lot smoother and means, as a creative, I can get involved earlier in a project,” explains Wardell,

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Colorist Chat: Andrea Chlebak on An American Pickle, Remote Work, More

By Randi Altman

Industry veteran Andrea Chlebak has spent her career color grading film and television projects while at a variety of post houses. For the past two years, she was at LA’s Efilm, where she worked on projects such as An American Pickle, Bad Hair, Limetown and A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting.

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