Baselight Inspired: Resolve’s Color Warper For Look Development

April 21, 2024

Colorist Jamie Dickinson is inspired by Baselight's Chromogen 'stages' paradigm of look development and applies it to Resolve's Color Warper.


Filmlight’s Chromogen video inspired me to take a fresh look at using Resolve’s Color Warper

FilmLight has released new tools for Baselight, one of which is called Chromogen. While the tool is interesting, what is more interesting to me is an excellent live presentation, Look Development Masterclass: Chromogen In Action. It’s available on YouTube (and embedded below).

The philosophy discussed in this video and the detailed description of some of its new tools made me want to revisit Resolve’s Color Warper to see if it could be used similarly. More specifically, this Insight explores the ‘stages’ of Chromogen as a starting point for building a similar set of tools in Resolve.


YouTube video
Look Development Masterclass 2023: With FilmLight Colourist and Workflow Specialist Andy Minuth – The inspiration for this Insight. I encourage you to watch it.

The grading and look-dev tools in Baselight seem good, but I’ve never had any real hands-on time with the system. I’m attempting to (mostly) use Resolve’s Color Warper tool to mimic certain elements of the ‘film look’ and also take inspiration from Filmlight’s look development approach.


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