"Light Iron supervising colorist Ian Vertovec provided the final color grade for the film Devotion, which tells the true story of Jesse Brown."

An overview article with interesting bits like this: "We also developed a new “depth compositing” system that gave us a real-time composite in-camera without using any green- or bluescreen. That let us blend live action and CG elements so we could get a very close version of the final shot even while we were on-set shooting a scene."

An in-depth article on one of the biggest developments in the filmmaking of Avatar 2: “I started going back and just looking at the muscles in the face and how they’re laid out and how they’re all connected. I realized that if you map out those connections you have the basis for a high-dimensional space that could describe the face.”

(video) "Spider-Verse introduced a different style and since then, digital animation studios have been experimenting with non-photorealism. This video looks at how that shift is happening."

"We made a list of the cameras that shot the Oscars 2023 (95th Academy Awards) prominent films ... Large format compact cinema cameras are at the top: ARRI Mini LF, and Sony VENICE. Explore the charts below."

(video) "There are also now easier ways of relinking to digital files that may have changed paths, sequence templates that speed up the editing process, and keyboard shortcuts to help you quickly navigate the interface."

From the developer of Beauty Box: "In this post we’ll talk about what to do if you have 4K footage and aren’t getting the look you want. Mainly I want to focus on Skin Detail Smoothing, as I think that plays a bigger role than most people think. AND you can set it negative!"

A good article with this caveat: "I’m running an NVIDIA RTX 3080Ti with 12G of RAM on it, so anything that you see, video wise, in this article or moving forward, was created with that card. I tried working with a Macbook Pro M1 Pro Max with 64G of RAM, and it just couldn’t handle it, so keep in mind that you’ll need a kick ass graphics card if you want to work fluidly with Unreal Engine 5."

(video) "The video also elaborates on the structure of R3D and how it’s connected to the good old CineForm RAW. Basically, the video tries to prove that RED has not invented anything new, and the patent is based on older simplified compression methodologies."

Part 2 is a review nine months later and is less about the numbers and more about the experience of using the Mac Studio Ultra.

"An M2 Extreme chip would have doubled that to 48 CPU cores and 152 graphics cores. However, Bloomberg has updated these forecasts, stating that Apple has likely scrapped that higher-end configuration." Also interesting in this article is the impact of Apple's move away from China manufacturing on the decision to moderate the high-end capabilities of the next MacPro iteration.

"Blackmagic Design has rolled out the all new Cintel Scanner G3 HDR+, which features a completely redesigned light source that allows real time HDR film scanning in Ultra HD."

(video) "In this video Jon explains what a 10-gigabit network connection is and why it’s so important to video editors and post-production operations."

If you're new to our craft, this is a good introduction to professional backup strategies.

(video) "The new RTX Video Super Resolution feature is coming next month for videos watched in the Chrome and Edge browsers. But you’ll need an Nvidia 30 or 40-series GPU for it to work."

(video) This is the video discussion that got me on Midjourney (and re-activating my Discord account). It's a fun discussion and a great place to start if, like me, you're new to Midjourney.

(video) This is fun - and only a matter of time before this moves into moving images: "I'm going to generate website designs with midjourney, which is an ML art tool for creating images. Then we will jump into chat gpt to create the written content for the website, and finally put it all together in Editor X, which is a no coding tool for creating sites!"