Film Look - The Incredible Growth Spurt

When I just announced having The Incredible Growth Spurt as my next short animation project, I wanted to focus on two big challenges for me to practice & conquer, body sculpting to make cloth shrinks look even more realistic, and more importantly, color grading, something that seemed too hard and too complex for me to touch, until now!

If you have read some of my comic works before, you probably have noticed that I love to play around colors and looks for my scenes and renders, for example, switching colors from a slight blue tint to yellow/orange to indicate Madison's dream sequence. Those were achieved by changing a simple camera setting for my renders and while it is probably more than enough for the comics, I feel like I need to take another leap forward for animation.

My goal is quite simple, that one day I will be able to bring the quality of film to the community, and one huge part of it is the film looks and professionally color graded footages, something that I have never tried before and frankly, sounded absolutely terrifying!

For this animation, however, I decided to push myself and have a go at it, properly, grading my animation in Davinci's Resolve instead of leaving it as is when it comes out of the render engine. I honestly didn't even expect to have anything solid and having to revert back to the original but after a few days of scratching my head and redoing things over and over, I gotta say, I am absolutely loving what I am getting and I just can't wait to share with you all - a simple footage that showcases my color grading process.

It's honestly nothing too interesting if you are not as into the filmmaking process as I am, but I am still just super excited to show you the results anyways!

Watch it in 4K below:

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It's a small step forward and a crap ton to learn of course, but I believe that in the future, I will be able to deliver you guys animations with film level quality, with colors and cinematography like batman, blade runner and hopefully some quality sound editing as well! It's not gonna be fast, but I have faith that I will be able to get there!

For now, I hope you enjoy this little before - after footage, and thank you all for being on this journey with me!!