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