Creative Color Science Masterclass II

Creative Color Science II Masterclass

Instructor: Cullen Kelly

The goal of this course is to introduce the intermediate creative color science practitioner to a variety of advanced concepts and methodologies, allowing them to find a personal and intuitive approach to complex look development. 

At the conclusion of the course, participants will have simultaneously deepened and simplified their creative process, and discovered new horizons for further exploration and study.

As in Creative Color Science I, course work will take place in the Davinci Resolve Fusion page, with greater emphasis on using the Custom Tool node to mathematically construct tools and transforms.

Day 1

Session 1

Going deeper with matrices

Luminance preservation strategies

Neutrals preservation strategies

Creating a “curves matrix”

Adding input terms to create more interesting transformations: inverses, powers, and cross products

Session 2

Deriving and manipulating non-RGB channels

The many uses of a luminance channel

Common formulas for deriving luminance

Calculating and and utilizing a saturation channel

Understanding chroma vs. saturation

Common formulas for deriving saturation

Day 2

Session 1

Curve plotting

Simple functions

Slope, Offset, and Power

Advanced functions

Parabolic

Hyperbolic

Sigmoidal

1D Bezier

Bell

Implementing and parameterizing piecewise functions

Session 2

Exploring additional color models

The benefits of generic models vs. bounded spaces

Comparison of HSV, HSL, YCH, IHLS, and Chen

Implementing curve functions within these models

Creating 2D channel interactions with masks

Day 3

Session 1

Creating 3D curve interactions

Auditioning and selecting a model, domain, and curve function

Finding new ideas and solutions

Hands-on examples:

Sat vs. Lum vs. Hue

Hue vs. Sat vs. Lum

Session 2

Creative Color Science Applied: A dialogue with Steve Yedlin

Participants will create and receive Fusion presets for the following tools and transforms:

Inner Cube Tool for visualizing inner contents of an RGB cube rendering

Color models

IHLS

Spherical

Oklab

LEFch

Hunter LAB

Matrix tools

Dynamic 3xN with luminance and neutrals preservation

Crosstalk curves

Curve functions

Various sigmoid functions

1D Bezier

Various bell functions

Various piecewise functions

Master Fusion templates

Synthetic Look Dev

Reference/emulation based Look Dev

Photochemical Modeling