The Color Timer Podcast

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.comFull episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/color-timer-podcast-daria-fissoun-color-grading-history-terminology/Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===In this episode of the Color Timer Podcast, I speak with the multi-talented Daria Fissoun, CSI.Daria is a highly skilled colorist, compositor, and certified DaVinci Resolve trainer with over a decade of experience in the post-production industry. She is also a Mixing Light contributor.We dove into the details of Daria’s latest project, a literal thesis about the etymology used in color correction and grading. Where do these terms come from? I had no idea I wanted to learn about this subject, but Daria quickly made me realize how incredible a history of our craft there is to discover. (00:00) - Introduction (02:08) - How Daria became a colorist (04:39) - Daria's thesis on Color Grading etymology (07:00) - How do you research a thesis? (09:31) - The idea of a thesis (11:43) - Daria's end goal of her thesis (14:49) - Daria's insights on how people learn (19:11) - How do you remember everything you've learned? (20:42) - Final thoughts

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.comFull episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/color-timer-podcast-baselight-filmlight-workflow-colorist-andy-minuth/Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===In this episode of The Color Timer Podcast, I speak with Andy Minuth, a colorist and workflow specialist associated with FilmLight, a company known for its high-end color grading tools and systems such as Baselight.He has extensive experience in post-production workflows, particularly in the areas of color grading and film finishing. Andy often works on showcasing the capabilities of FilmLight's products, conducting training sessions, and collaborating with industry professionals to develop efficient workflows.

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.comFull episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/color-grading-animation-john-daro-color-timer-podcast/Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===Seasoned lead digital intermediate colorist John Daro joins me for this episode of The Color Timer Podcast. Our deep-dive conversation gets into the nitty-gritty of the art and craft of color grading animation, and John shares a ton of practical details for polishing animated projects.John Daro is part of the Visual Effect Society, the Motion Picture Editors Guild, and the Colorist Society in Hollywood. (00:00) - Introduction (01:53) - The most beautiful thing John has ever seen (05:44) - Color grading workflows and similarities to animation (12:29) - Where to start in an animation production? (21:15) - Favourite movie from the 80s?

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.comFull episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/mezzo-soprano-emily-harmon-synesthesia-color-timer-podcast/Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===In today’s episode, we take a slightly different angle. We explore color through the eyes of a professional who works with music. Operatic mezzo-soprano Emily Harmon shares how music affects her vision and her extraordinary relationship with color through synesthesia.I found our conversation fascinating, and it led me to question how a color grade could be shaped by the emotion of the moment, even at a subconscious level.---Synesthesia: a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. – Wikipedia-- (00:00) - - Introduction (01:00) - - Emily Harmon introduction (02:37) - - What is a crossover artist? (05:30) - - Opera & Color? (09:55) - - Can it be overwhelming? (11:16) - - How did you find out you had Synesthesia? (13:58) - - Do the colors always match the sound? (15:27) - - Does vision induce hearing sounds? (17:54) - - Synesthesia and feature films (19:25) - - Do the tones of color come into this? (21:21) - - Do adjacent keys share similar colors? (23:44) - - Wrap up (24:09) - - Closing Remarks

Accelerate your post-production career: https://mixinglight.comFull episode notes and additional links: https://mixinglight.com/color-grading-tutorials/what-a-contemporary-artist-can-teach-colorists-about-color/Buy the Color Timer Shirt, now for sale: https://vincenttaylorcolor.myshopify.com/===The Color Timer podcast aims to speak with professionals who work with color.Yet, so often, I fall into the habit of speaking with professionals closer to my field of film and television, but I really do want to cast the further and learn from professionals working in other disciplines—that is what we are doing in this episode!Anna Evans is a contemporary New Zealand landscape painter, children’s book illustrator, mural painter, and games artist.With so many talents at her disposal, who better to learn about color from?I discovered Anna while watching an Instagram video she made about color mixing that challenges some of the fundamental things we learned in art class as children. I was totally hooked by the way Anna explained things.Her passion for color and the threads of science that keep popping up throughout our conversation make this an episode for both technicians and artists. Anna’s work is beautiful, so after listening to our chat, please check it out through the links below.It made me wonder, whose art most inspires and provokes you to try new color grading techniques?- - -Editor: Rich RoddmanExecutive Producer: https://mixinglight.comPodcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com (00:00) - - Introduction (01:12) - - Anna's background and journey (02:08) - - And... the timer begins (02:48) - - The painter's primary colors (05:18) - - Mixing with light (08:08) - - Anna's color palette (09:02) - - Painting birds (12:28) - - New inspiration (14:11) - - Painting as a jazz performance (16:19) - - What kind of paint do you use? (16:53) - - Do you force yourself to paint? (17:59) - - Is there a color that you tend to avoid? (19:09) - - Thoughts on the King Charles portrait (21:36) - - Get the Color Timer T-Shirt!