Thanks guys! Glad it looks good.
I’m gonna try one last idea before I say the color grading is complete. Here’s the orange film look again:
I wanted to try combining the orange and blue looks together. So, I started by making a node for the orange look using the curves in Resolve. I raised the red levels and lowered the blue levels like so:
Then, I made another node for the blue look. I used the curves again, but did the opposite of the orange look. I raised the blue levels and lowered the red levels like so:
Finally, I added a parallel mixer node to combine the two looks together:
My hope was that the combination would improve on perfection, but honestly, it wasn’t quite the grade of excellence I was hoping for. I suppose the faded red look that you will see in this newer combination might look good on some other movie, but not for TFA. I’m not sure the faded red suits Jakku (especially in comparison with the orange film look), and it seems like the addition of the blue makes the image look more desaturated. Still, I’ll let you be the judge. If I don’t get any responses, I’ll stick with the orange look and leave it be. But if you want to provide a defense for this newer grade, feel free to do so.
As usual, I’ve placed all of the examples under the spoiler tag below. Let me know what you think.
