Randi Altman’s Post Perspective Colorist Chat with Fotokem’s Dave Cole on working on Dune

OK I had to post this article on the Colorist of Dune because of the insane process for Color Grading that they did.

I watched the new Dune at home on HBO Max, being a huge fan of the original David Lynch version, and having read all of Frank Herbert’s original novels around the time the original film came out.

I still am trying to wrap my head around the fact that they Shot the film on ARRI Alexa LF for the most part, then color graded in DaVinci Resolve, then scanned back to 35 mm film and then scanned back for grading. Which is to say at the least an incredibly expensive process. And how did it integrate with FX, did they do the scan first or after effects were added?

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