Storyline brings VFX and grading closer with Baselight

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Storyline brings VFX and grading closer with Baselight --

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 11:09

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Storyline Studios recently installed Baselight colour grading systems, along with Baselight for NUKE plug-ins to provide workflow links between effects and finishing.

Storyline wanted to find a more efficient way of incorporating VFX into its colour workflow. The solution lay with Baselight for NUKE, a software plug-in that provides complete grading capabilities within the VFX environment. A complex grade and associated colour space transforms published in the colour suite can be imported into NUKE allowing the compositor to see precisely what the colourist sees. The plug-in also gives the NUKE operator access to the Baselight user interface to tweak the grade if necessary to make the effect more seamless, as well as providing colour re-mapping and a final output.

Baselight provides a metadata-driven, renderless process. Grading decisions and colour space transforms are maintained in the FilmLight BLG file format and applied accurately at the moment of viewing. This allows BLG files to be shared with other systems like NUKE where they can be updated and returned to the colourist for final adjustments.

When it comes to feature films it is easier to do the VFX work from day one, from right after shooting, explained Torulf Henriksen Storyline s CTO. In the past we had to decide when to do the grading should we do VFX before or after? With the BLG workflow that issue is resolved: compositors can work on VFX even after grading, they can keep track of colours along the BLG journey and finesse the work as the look of the film develops. That was the reason the VFX department selected Baselight within NUKE.

Storyline also installed two Baselight ONE grading suites, one with a Blackboard control surface and one with Slate.

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