Warren Eagles' Color Tour Podcast

Post NAB 2024 I was invited to the latest Colorist Society Hollywood meet up. Held on the rooftop at the Godfrey Hotel in Hollywood I chatted to a number of top colorists in attendance about how and why they joined the Chapter and what they are currently working on.

During my recent trip to the US I caught up with Christopher Young owner and Colorist at See Why Color in Brooklyn.

Thomas is the senior colorist and CEO of the Post House 'The Look.' They are responsible for shows like Sex Education, Top Boy and Landscapers.

The Color Tour Podcast visits Park City in Utah to chat with Crash Carlucci.

The Color Tour Podcast is back with a fantastic live on YouTube Live chat re NAB/Colorist Mixer 2023. Intro - Hosts: Warren Eagles, Kevin Shaw, Jeff Greenberg and 10 special guests

Kali grew up in a small country town. She progressed from Film School to junior coloring jobs via editing to the dizzy heights of grading Elvis. We chat about the early days of grading for tattoos right up to being a VFX colorist at D-Neg in Vancouver.

Darren has been colouring for over 20 years but has recently been better known for his Resolve tips YouTube Channel. He is also a producer, making high end corporate content shooting around the world.  I visited in July so ideal for our pub courtyard colorist chit chat session.

Rebecca Goodeve has a ton of varied experience for someone so young. She has worked at both large and boutique post houses, and built her own boutique post house in Leigh on Sea

Dave Hughes is an old school film colorist who worked all over Europe before returning to Ireland to run a Baselight at Windmill Lane in Dublin.

I recently chatted to one of Africa's leading Color Graders the ‘Accidental Colorist' Bobola Oniwura.

Maxine is a Hollywood A list Colorist. Her credits include big tent pole titles like Book of Eli and Black Panther in a list of over 60 films.

Setyo is as he says laughing, "I'm one of three gun colorists in Malaysia" He was born in Indonesian before moving to KL. He scored a job at the Blackmagic Design Post House as a VT op and worked his way up to being a senior colorist. Setyo now runs his own Color grading shop in KL.

Bob Festa has been coloring for nearly 40 years. As he says in the podcast "There is nothing I haven’t seen in front or behind me in a session, the only difference now during the Pandemic there is nothing going on behind me!

Gino is one of the leading color graders in Peru. I first met Gino when he came to my iColorist NYC class in 2012. It was great catching up again for the CT Podcast.

Juan started his first company aged 17 in Madrid, Spain. He prepped for his first color grade by reading the Mistika manual on a 5 hour car drive from Madrid to Malaga. Once in Malaga he graded his first short film and his career as a colorist was launched. 

I visited Toby at CHEAT in 2018. It is a fantastic facility situated in Hackney East London, very close to where I went to school. We checked out his facility and then went to his local pub for a pie and a pint

Walter is one of the world's leading Color graders. He has coloured over 100 features including Green Book, Star Wars The Last Jedi, and Dunkirk. Walter is currently working for Company 3.

Junbin Chen is one of the top colorists based in Singapore. This is our pre COVID-19 chat that took place at a post house called Iceberg. JB has coloured over 25 features, 20 TV series and 100s of TVCs.

Chema Alba is one of Spain’s premier color graders. Chema talks about the transition from film grader to coloring Netflix TV shows. He started out at a film scanning company. Handling film gave him the taste for colouring so he pursued the big manufactures to loan him a machine so he could practice. This showed his enthusiasm, because at the time he wasn’t a colorist and the systems were over $300,000!

Marc Wielage is a veteran Colorist based in Hollywood. He has been grading for 40 years and has the credits and stories to prove it. The chat starts at his shop in Hollywood before moving to legendary Hollywood restaurant Canters. Lots of people know him from the many different color forums he follows. Marc has helped many colorists at all levels, so this is a chance to get his backstory.

Leo Otero is a master colorist working in Bogota, Colombia. He has his own facility called 2.35. Leo works mainly on movies and longform projects. Warren chats with Leo in his Bogota Post House before taking the short walk to a local bar where is joined with Diego Yhama from Colombia and Javier Guevara from Argentina. What is it like colouring in South America an how does each country differ

This episode really gets to the heart of what the Color Tour Podcast is all about. Dario Bigi is New York through and through. Born in Queens he has been an East Village resident for over 20 years now. He is an owner operator and runs his grading shop out of his apartment. Dario is the first CT Podcast colorist who hasn’t come via the traditional telecine grading route. We move from his rooftop to his grading set up. Before venturing 200 yards down the street to a swanky East Village cocktail bar.

Kevin Shaw has been a colorist for over 30 years. He has worked full-time in London, Italy and Switzerland, and also started the da-vinci training academy in Florida. Kevin co founded the International Colorist Academy and is a driving force behind the Colorist Society International. He currently lives in London, but we took this opportunity to record the Podcast whilst in Beijing last year.

Alter Ego is one of the premier post facilities in the world. Based in Toronto, Alter Ego was founded 10 years ago by Australian Colorists Eric Whipp and Wade Odlum. They specialise in colouring on Baselight but the facility has grown to add VFX and production to it's roster. The guys balance colouring TVCs, managing over 50 staff, and still manage to grade blockbuster feature films…..how do they do it?

Warren chats to Jet in Soho, London about her extensive work history. The move from TVCs to drama, women in color, and what she thinks of Kevin Shaw. Being headhunted — and on the other hand getting fired in Leicester SQ after a movie screening. How do you get five days to grade a one shot Madonna TVC? Jet has colored numerous television commercials and has recently finished the TV series Trust by Danny Boyle. Other notable credits include The Night Manager and Luther.

This episode comes from Gothenburg on the West Coast of Sweden. It features Nikolai Waldman, colorist and owner at CAN Film. Warren and Nikolai chat about why he loves FSI monitors, grading Volvo trucks shot on Sony cameras and what he was grading in LA recently.

Warren is in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand for this episode of the Color Tour Podcast chatting to long form colorist Alana Cotton, who works at Images Post and Sound. They start their chat in Alana’s grading theatre before moving to the new harbourfront area where New Zealand will defend the America’s Cup in 2021. Topics discussed include Alana’s thought process when grading a feature, women in film, and why she loves the Baselight.

Warren chats to Clark Muller at his Nucoda grading shop in Venice Beach. They chat about the challenges of grading in different countries, and why he left Company 3 to start his own company Incendio.

Warren chats with Paul Hanrahan at Digimax in his Nucoda and Resolve grading suites.

Episode 2 of the Color Tour was recorded in Las Vegas at the Sixth Annual NAB Colorist Mixer was held on the Sunday before the exhibition opens. Warren takes the mic behind the scenes of the Mixer and finds out what the colorists have been grading and garners their thoughts on the Mixer concept.

Vincent Taylor is a senior colorist at Chimney NYC. He has recently relocated to New York after a three year stint with MPC in Shanghai. In this podcast, Vincent describes the challenges of working in a foreign country, including clients and their expectations, and the number of hours he spends on a typical project. We start recording in his new room in Manhattan before moving to his local dive bar to continue our conversation.

With the paint still wet and the drinks fridge still chilling the new Media Village training room opened for business last week. Chris and Pat from MV had decided to expand their already strong commitment to training by creating a dedicated training space. Equipped with a Mac Pro/Resolve control surface for the trainer, and 17” MacBook Pros driven by Tangent Wave’s for the students. We also had a projector showing the GUI and a 40” Plasma showing the main output. The room has a kitchen area, bar fridge and a chill out sofa area. I loved the larger training room. Even with 7 students I had lots of room to walk around comfortably moving between the workstations. The Resolve panels were set up on the side of the room so I had a perfect eyeline to the students or the projector. I liked to be able to see each person so I can judge if they fully understand the module I am teaching. I always encouraged the students to speak out if they didn’t understand something, because if they didn’t get it chances are one of the other students didn’t fully understand the topic I was teaching either. In Singapore both the R101 and the Colorist Strategies classes had a great mixture of students from a number of different backgrounds, editors, colorists, and VFX artists. Students always bring different experiences to the class, so we always spend some time discussing our previous exploits into color grading. We took these chats out on the town one night, to a great new bar called LeVel 33. Great views of the Grand Prix track and of the new Sands casino, might have to stay there next time! To sum up, the new room has taken Media Village’s training commitment to a new level, I loved the larger space and found the projector, very useful for both me and the students. My next Singapore classes are in May, but the MV training room has classes set for Smoke, Nuke and Color Science during the next few months. Michelle Carlos movie Michelle talks about her ICA experience in “An ICA Minute” Warren Eagles ICA Australia www.facebook.com/icolorist www.vimeo.com/icolorist

With the paint still wet and the drinks fridge still chilling the new Media Village training room opened for business last week. Chris and Pat from MV had decided to expand their already strong commitment to training by creating a dedicated training space. Equipped with a Mac Pro/Resolve control surface for the trainer, and 17” MacBook Pros driven by Tangent Wave’s for the students. We also had a projector showing the GUI and a 40” Plasma showing the main output. The room has a kitchen area, bar fridge and a chill out sofa area. I loved the larger training room. Even with 7 students I had lots of room to walk around comfortably moving between the workstations. The Resolve panels were set up on the side of the room so I had a perfect eyeline to the students or the projector. I liked to be able to see each person so I can judge if they fully understand the module I am teaching. I always encouraged the students to speak out if they didn’t understand something, because if they didn’t get it chances are one of the other students didn’t fully understand the topic I was teaching either. In Singapore both the R101 and the Colorist Strategies classes had a great mixture of students from a number of different backgrounds, editors, colorists, and VFX artists. Students always bring different experiences to the class, so we always spend some time discussing our previous exploits into color grading. We took these chats out on the town one night, to a great new bar called LeVel 33. Great views of the Grand Prix track and of the new Sands casino, might have to stay there next time! To sum up, the new room has taken Media Village’s training commitment to a new level, I loved the larger space and found the projector, very useful for both me and the students. My next Singapore classes are in May, but the MV training room has classes set for Smoke, Nuke and Color Science during the next few months. Michelle Carlos movie Michelle talks about her ICA experience in “An ICA Minute” Warren Eagles ICA Australia www.facebook.com/icolorist www.vimeo.com/icolorist