The Spatial Edition – Sunday Morning Color Grading Newsletter

August 10, 2025

This week: The VFX of Superman, Gen X Careers, Neat Video 6, Resolve 20.1 new features, Threadripper Pro Review, $3 million sim, and more.


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Issue DCXXV: The Spatial Edition

The Color Grading Newsletter

News, reviews, thoughts, career advice, and humor for professional Video / Film Colorists & Finishers. Delivered Sundays. Curated by a professional color grader and the CEO of MixingLight.com.
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Sunday, 10 August 2025

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Featuring the work of creative craftsmen, the theory of color, and industry news. Learn practical workflows, useful theories, and actionable insights from existing (and emerging) leaders and teachers in our industry.
FutureWorks senior colorist Tushar Desai, “While many period films rely on warm, sepia-heavy palettes to evoke a sense of the past, for this film the team opted for a more restrained and grounded aesthetic. “The goal was not to stylize history but to inhabit it,” explains Desai. “Cooler, desaturated tones were used selectively to convey the emotional weight of key scenes, with natural skin tones and environments kept front and center throughout.”

(podcast) “Mike Seymour is joined as always by Jason Diamond and Matt Wallin to unpack the visual effects tour de force that is Superman (2025), a film that reinvents the Man of Steel through an ambitious mix of lighthearted storytelling and full-throttle VFX action spectacle.”

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