Dreamaster said:
DrDre, this shot “slightly green-shifted” is making the walls a more cyan/blue color. I really do think this one is really close. Still curious to see how that LUT applied to some other death star scenes would look (like a Tarkin scene, or Obi-Wan deactivating the tractor beam)I’m thinking how to incorporate Harmy’s and Mike Verta’s input into a reasonably accurate grading. We’ll get there…
😃 OK I’ll be patient. I think I also figured out what I wanted to say about Tattooine gradings the other day, so I’m glad you posted another “final” of that scene. 😉 This one looks like you’re already thinking of it but a few of the latter ones seemed to white balance as if the lighting was something more akin to florescent lights, whereas all of these scenes need to have a warmer “sunlit” white balance (tending gently towards yellow or orange). I make game environments/terrian and I’m always setting the mood by changing the color of the directional light (the sun basically)… That’s the point of white balance, which does NOT effect the primary colors so much as the very lightest colors. The specular highlights in Tattooine should never really have a green or a blue tinge but that’s the common mistake I’ve seen in a lot of the other colorings done to the movie. (Looking at people’s skin, not talking about the specular highlights on R2’s blue dome or something, LOL) In the Death Star shots, that’s a COMPETELY different story because there are actually green lights on some of the walls and the lights really ARE in fact more florescent in nature. In fact, in Empire I noted that in the Hoth base the lights actually were set up to alternate between white and blue as Han and Leia are arguing down the hall! But Tattooine, I just wanted us to keep that warmth in mind. And again, that really shouldn’t effect much of the “red/peach” in people’s faces, but it will very much effect the whites on the astromech droids and the oily highlights in the skin. I think it will also effect the color of the sand a bit. Death Star Shots you’ll have to really look at the different sources to figure out which direction to push the highlights based on what color you think the lights are that they are closest too.
P.S. All of your tatooine finals on the first page look perfect BTW… Verta’s on the other hand might lean a bit green still in darker shades of that speeder though! 😃