Power Stone is so beautiful! I love everything about it, but what stands out to me right now is how the color design is so ON POINT. This is so appealing and legible and well balanced!
Power Stone is on another level. Compare it to popular entertainment products today. Power Stone looks vibrant, but also much more naturalistic. It doesn't have Instagrammy color grading to bring the colors together. It feels like those colors are really there if that makes sense
Modern games and films tend to heavily rely on color grading, which in my opinion tends to actually flatten out the final image. Power Stone is lower tech and relies on good ol baked-in lighting via textures with a bit of simple realtime lighting. It has more intentionality!
I complain a lot about color grading, but of course it's just a technique. It's not inherently bad, and in fact it's an incredibly powerful tool that every filmmaker benefits from having access to. It's what you do with it that counts.
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The Matrix is one of the films that hugely influenced the generic color grading you see across most films today. And yet, the first Matrix film had EXCELLENT color grading. Look at how the green filter makes the reds pop by contrast.
And look at how much detail you can still see in the shadows. This is good stuff! They didn't apply the FX uniformly. The color grading here gives the final image even more depth! It's executed with so much intentionality!
Color grading is often an ongoing process even after a film is released. Sometimes home releases of films look radically different from how they looked in theaters. Or even from other home video releases!
If you'd like to know more about digital color grading in films, I suggest you look into "Oh Brother Where Art Thou." It was a game changer. It's actually one of the most influential films ever made. Laid the foundations for digital color grading.
My god, these early digital color grading rigs look like so much FUN!
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I just cracked myself up hehe
Explaining the previous joke because I am so self satisfied to have made it
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