Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
Color Grading
A course by Juan Olivares , Digital VFX Composer
About the video: Color Grading
Overview
“In this lesson, I will dedicate myself to give the final Look to the shot so that it looks like it came out of a Hollywood movie. I will teach you about Color Grading and how it helps to give a Look & Feel coherent with what is being narrated.”
In this video lesson Juan Olivares addresses the topic: Color Grading, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production. Learn fundamentals and basic techniques to create a VFX shot with Nuke.
Partial transcription of the video
“We have reached the last process: the Color Grading. In this lesson, we are going to look for a cinematic look That fits our project. As I told you in the previous lesson, I already modified this little smoke that I had stayed too quickly. I challenged him a little more and slowed him down. And that was the only thing I did between the previous lesson and this Let's see how to give it a final look. This is the reference that I used To build on my plait. It's a look that is a bit fashionable in movies of superheroes, especially DC. We will be able to see that in the shadows and in blacks, ev...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Digital Compositing in Post-production
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Category
3D & Animation -
Software
Adobe After Effects, Nuke -
Areas
3D, Audiovisual Post-production, Film, Video & TV, Photography Post-production, VFX

Juan Olivares
A course by Juan Olivares
Juan Olivares is a specialist in digital composition and visual effects. His beginnings in the audiovisual world were in Buenos Aires (Argentina) working for television commercials, where he later made his big leap into the world of visual effects with the Oscar-winning film The Secret in Their Eyes.
He worked on innumerable Argentine productions before moving to Vancouver, Canada, where he worked in houses specializing in visual effects such as The Embassy, Zoic, and Digital Domain, with which he was able to participate in Hollywood productions such as Deadpool, Arrow, and Furious 7. Then, he crossed the ocean, this time to London, United Kingdom, where he worked at the Framestore house for the film Guardians of the Galaxy.
He is currently in Chile, his native country, where he founded a visual-effects boutique specializing in characters and creatures, called Grumpy VFX, where he is a composer and visual-effects supervisor.
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