Gold Mononodes - Reverse Engineering The Grade

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    REVERSE ENGINEERING THE GRADE

    “Reverse Engineering the Grade” is a project where I collect stills from “behind the scenes” and compare those images side by side with scenes from the final movie. My goal is to get as close as possible to the final look, but at the same time I want to keep the node tree minimal and clean.



    THE IDEA BEHIND
    REVERSE ENGINEERING THE GRADE

    I remembered this blog post by Juan Melara from 2015. In the course of a discussion on the topic „movie look recreations“ in this “Lift Gamma Gain thread“, colorist and cinematographer Juan Melara „jumped in“ and recreated the look of “Midnight in Paris” in DaVinci Resolve.

    The result is still one of the best look recreations you can find online. From this point on I got profoundly interested in the method „reverse engineering the grade“, and I started to experiment with it myself resulting in making this website on the topic with some additional points of views.




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    amazing, thank for sharing
     
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    There has been a new update on the course, 9 new videos are out. OP can you please update the post for us? Thanks in advance!
     
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    can we get the updates of mononodes PART 3
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    I understand that an update came out and it is free for those who have it, could you see if it is true and share the update
     
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