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Part 1:
From Manchester U to the Academy Awards
Part 2:
Enter the Matrix
Part 3:
IRIDAS Joins the Team
Part 4:
Raising the Bar
in VFX
Part 5:
SpeedGrade is Born
Part 6:
Kim Libreri's Filmography
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SpeedGrade is Born
The
collaboration between IRIDAS and Kim didn’t end with FrameCycler DDS. In
fact the best was yet to come. As usual, a new product was born out of
an old problem.
In assembling
sequences, Kim and his colleagues faced the usual issues of matching the
exposure, contrast, and hues of different shots within a scene. This can
be done with compositing applications, but that is a laborious way to go
about it. Kim and Lin began discussing the possibility of leveraging the
pixel shader technology available with the new high end graphics cards
to apply color correction attributes. This would allow the artists to do
real time color correction, enormously simplifying and speeding up the
process.
Catwoman: the final film for Kim and the
remarkable team at ESC.
Thus
SpeedGrade was born.The new application was used for preliminary color
grading on the Matrix
Revolutions and
Catwoman. “I
realize that SpeedGrade puts IRIDAS up against some big names in the
business. But I have first hand experience working with them. IRIDAS has
an excellent development team and their products have the quality to
give the established applications a run for their money. I hope they do.
It would be good for the industry.”
We are
delighted to be working with Kim and honored to have contributed to his
team’s groundbreaking VFX work. We have first hand experience working
with
him, his vision, and his abilities. We know there is lot’s more to come from Kim
Libreri.
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Kim Libreri (left),
George Borshukov and Dan Piponi received a Technical Achievement Award
for the virtual environments in the Bullet Time sequences.
SpeedGrade was used extensively for preliminary grading and shot
matching in Catwoman. |
