The Nexyad Skin Three-Strip a la Technicolor 30’s - 60’s :
Following its two-color process, the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation launched in 1932 a camera that simultaneously managed three films black & white, one as red-sensitive, the second green-sensitive and the last blue-sensitive. From these negative films, they applied an additional dye color for each matrix (subtractive) and then perfectly juxtaposed the three matrices on perforated film and each was used as a printing plate to be deposited on a support: the positive copy. The Movies using this three-strip process met a huge success with the public because the beauty of their images. It allowed for the first time a "supersaturation" of some colors. Some lamented that purpose in the name of "realism", while creatives used it the whole range available to them (particularly for its Walt Disney cartoons). This revolutionary technique comes from MIT engineer Herbert Kalmus.
As a quote, see images of movies in Technicolor :
The Nexyad skin three-strip reproduces the Technicolor render of the thirties to the sixties movies, as analyzed in many films. It is not just saturating the colors, or multiplying the red, green and blue together. Otherwise strong color saturation quickly leads to fluorescent colors everywhere; meadows "lime green" skies "cobalt blue", etc ... in all circumstances. This is not what you can observe on old Technicolor movies : the “saturation” effect comes from the fact that desaturated colors and saturated ones are put together with less color tones than in reality and less variations of middle saturations : see "The Wizard of Oz," "Gone with the Wind," "Duel in the Sun," "An American in Paris," "Scaramouche" "Ben Hur", "Lawrence of Arabia", etc.
Click on images to see the demo films below…
Technology Demo Nexyad Skin 3-Strip a la Technicolor 30's to 60's (film 01) from NEXYAD on Vimeo.
Technology Demo Nexyad Skin 3-Strip a la Technicolor 30's to 60's (film 02) from NEXYAD on Vimeo.
The overall rendering of Nexyad skin 3-Strip is rather dark in luminance (case generally observed on the period films), with a quite strong contrast saturation: low saturated colors may alternate with saturated color spots. Similarly, all colors are not possible. In particular, the red shades are highly targeted.
What is a Nexyad Skin ?
The Nexyad
Skins are
automatic and adaptative color grading processing (process is
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applied to edited rushes, it doesn't need any human intervention.
The Nexyad
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