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5 Books on Storytelling Every Creative Should Read

5 Great Books for Every Creative Storyteller Being a great storyteller is key to any creative work, whether its a song, still image or feature film. These 5 books on screenwriting and writing will help you learn how to craft, … Continue reading

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Colorist Resources Round Up

Great Resources for Colourists Another wave of great resources for new colourists has hit the web and I’ve rounded up a fair few of them here. Hopefully this melange of tutorials, tips and training will help you progress in the … Continue reading

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DaVinci Resolve Tutorials – Shared Learning

Resolve 9 Tutorials Round Up Here is another quick round up of some of the best tutorials for DaVinci Resolve to hit the web recently. What’s great about this round up is the variety of sources from which they originate. … Continue reading

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Behind The Scenes on Oblivion

Oblivion Behind The Scenes If you enjoyed Joseph Kosinski’s Tron Legacy, then his next film Oblivion looks pretty darn good too. There are some really interesting behind the scenes featurettes appearing online ahead of the theatrical release, including one about … Continue reading

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Creating a Look Node by Node in DaVinci Resolve

4 Part Node by Node Breakdown Tutorial Series Jesse Borkowski has put together this excellent 4 part tutorial series walking through how he created  specific look for a music video in DaVinci Resolve. In the first part he sets up … Continue reading

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The A-Z of Cinema in Sixty Seconds

ABC-Cinema’s 60 second Tour of Cinema History Animator Evan Seitz has created these 5 amazing animations over the course of the past year. Brain teasers for any cinema lover they take you on a tour of the history of cinema … Continue reading

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Colour Grading Dr. Who in Baselight

Colour Grading Dr Who – A Baselight Walkthrough In this 20 minute colour grading walk through of a full episode of Dr. Who, a BBC HD drama series, Filmlight colorist Bob Chorley demonstrates the power and flexibility of grading in … Continue reading

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Dale Grahn – Colour Timing Over 200 Feature Films

Dale Grahn – Learn to Colour Time Dale Grahn was Spielberg’s color timer (the pre-digital intermediate way to colour grade your film) with over 200 feature film credits listed on imdb.com, which makes him pretty much the don of colour … Continue reading

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The Power of Subtle Filmmaking

Adam and Dog – Oscar Nominated Animated Short Film Adam and Dog is a beautiful example of the power of subtle filmmaking to convey complex ideas with simple metaphors, which is probably part of the reason it’s also nominated for … Continue reading

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Inside Pixar’s New Short Film

A sneak peak at Pixar’s latest short film Fast Company have a quick interview with Saschka Unseld, a very talented animator, director and DP who has worked on Brave, Cars 2 and Toy Story 3. He is also the man behind … Continue reading

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