The Murderbot Edition: Weekly Sunday Morning Color Grading Newsletter

(video) This series revived my hope for Apple Original series – and the title sequence is one of my favorites. The VFX completely supports the narrative and they should all be proud of their work:

“DNEG VFX Supervisor Jelmer Boskma offers a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the visual effects for Murderbot Season 1, emphasizing the importance of early previs and techvis in shaping key action sequences, most notably the dramatic “Worm Attack” in Episode 1. He explains how previs, creature design, and environmental planning worked in tandem to support both storytelling and technical execution, allowing for better stunt planning and photoreal CG integration.” There’s an embedded VFX breakdown video, as well.

“When it came time to do final color in Resolve, Ferstl really had two “film look” nodes in play. The show LUT functioned as the output LUT, shaping the overall curve as described above. A second node earlier in the node tree was where Ferstl did his work within the Film Look Creator plugin, really dialing in selected attributes and artifacts of negative and positive film stocks in a unique way specific to the requirements of the world Lehane created.”