Da Vinci Resolve - Colour Grading For Game & Lighting Artist

Colour Grading covered from interface, white balance, photography, videography and Unreal Renders including LUT.

What you'll learn

You will learn Basic Da Vinci Resolve including nodes and colour correction of images.

You will learn various workflow tips and hotkeys to improve speed and accuracy

You will learn how to colour grade images and videos of various type to understand different challenges

You will learn about colour management

You will learn about LUT and how to create it in photoshop for Unreal Engine

You will learn Unreal Engine 5 ACES workflow between Da Vinci and Unreal to create video output

Requirements

It is recommended that you have space for the big files and that you know basic unreal engine, however we show how to do most of the things in case you don't.

Description

This course is for anyone looking to improve their technical and artistic skills for Da Vinci Resolve. In this course you will learn the interface in relation to Colour Grading workflow while learning to white balance your photography and videography. As you progress we introduce various videos and images to ensure you can learn the different challenges that arises when grading different time of day, water, skin tone, lighting condition and more. There are quick demonstration teaching how to correct or improve unreal renders as Da Vinci Resolve is a great way to improve your art direction, eye for colour and other important skills relevant for artist, especially lighting artist. Later you get introduction to workflow tips, colour management, Photoshop/Unreal LUT, Unreal/Davinci Aces workflow and LUT for final renders from Unreal into Da Vinci. After finishing this course you can tackle colour grading for photography, videos and 3d renders. Each example will test and educate you in various issues you can stumble upon in the future. These methods were used to greatly improve my art direction and skills for 3D lighting too so I want to make sure other people learn unique ways of improving their skills too. Best of luck.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Media Page

Lecture 3 Edit Page

Lecture 4 Color Page

Lecture 5 Deliver Page

Lecture 6 Cut Page

Section 2: Resources

Lecture 7 Resources to download to follow along

Section 3: Introduction to Nodes

Lecture 8 Serial Node

Lecture 9 Layer Mixer

Lecture 10 Parallel Mixer

Lecture 11 Outside Node

Lecture 12 Key Mixer

Lecture 13 Shared Node

Lecture 14 Timeline Node

Section 4: Introduction to Colour Correction

Lecture 15 Quick Intro to Scopes

Lecture 16 Quick Intro to White Balance

Lecture 17 Understanding Exposure

Lecture 18 Female Caucasian Colour Correction

Lecture 19 Red Hair Biker Girl Colour Correction

Lecture 20 Stair Forest Colour Correction

Lecture 21 Sunset Dock Colour Correction

Lecture 22 Wedding Car Colour Correction

Lecture 23 Prop Colour Correction

Lecture 24 Female Watching Sunset - Video - Colour Correction

Lecture 25 Bartender - Video - Colour Correction

Lecture 26 DJ Outside - Video - Colour Correction

Section 5: Colour Correction Demonstration

Lecture 27 Paragon Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 28 Magic Shop Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 29 Stealth Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 30 Library Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 31 Animal Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 32 The Shield Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 33 The Farmer Colour Correction Demo

Lecture 34 Space Bunker Colour Correction Demo

Section 6: Workflow Tips

Lecture 35 White Balance Tip

Lecture 36 One Colour Tip

Lecture 37 Histogram Tip

Lecture 38 Preset Tip

Lecture 39 Transfer Grade Tip

Lecture 40 Grab Still Screenshot Tip

Lecture 41 Image Wipe Comparison Tip

Lecture 42 Split Image Comparison Tip

Lecture 43 Hotkeys Tips

Section 7: Colour Grading

Lecture 44 Common Colour Grading Tools Used

Lecture 45 Colour Grading Intro

Lecture 46 Hacking Colour Grading

Lecture 47 Boat Colour Grading

Lecture 48 Shark Colour Grading

Lecture 49 Woodcutting Colour Grading

Lecture 50 Farm Colour Grading

Lecture 51 Operation Colour Grading

Lecture 52 Clock Colour Grading

Lecture 53 Berries Colour Grading

Lecture 54 Sunset Sea Colour Grading

Lecture 55 Bath Colour Grading

Lecture 56 Clean Up Advice

Section 8: Colour Management

Lecture 57 Introduction Colour Management

Lecture 58 Optical Illusions

Lecture 59 Human Eye

Lecture 60 The Light

Lecture 61 CIE Colour

Lecture 62 Colour Space

Lecture 63 Example in DaVinci Resolve

Section 9: LUT Grading Workflow for SDR Game

Lecture 64 Importing Unreal sRGB Image into Davinci - sRGB Linear

Lecture 65 Exporting LUT from DaVinci - sRGB Linear

Lecture 66 Applying LUT in Photoshop - sRGB Linear

Lecture 67 Adding LUT into Unreal 5 - sRGB Linear

Lecture 68 Sticking to sRGB Aces for Images

Section 10: Unreal 5 Aces Render Workflow for video/Portfolio

Lecture 69 Downloading OpenColorIO

Lecture 70 Downloading Plugins

Lecture 71 Creating Config File

Lecture 72 Setting up config OCIO

Lecture 73 Setting up Sequencer Shot

Lecture 74 Colour Management Setup in Unreal 5

Lecture 75 Importing EXR Render Into Da Vinci

Lecture 76 Colour Management in Da Vinci

Lecture 77 Exporting Videos

Section 11: Outro

Lecture 78 Outro

Colorist, Lighting Artist, Compositor, VFX, Game Artist