colour grade
Neon Noir
Rain-slick streets and a city that only wakes up after dark. Magenta and cyan cut through the shadow, and everything else stays in it.
Trumbone style looks
One shot, twenty-four ways to feel about it.
Same scene, same person, same brief every time: she walks along a city street at dusk and turns toward camera. One sample per look, no retouching. Pick a look once and every scene in the project inherits it.
Same world, different light
Colour grades
These keep the shot photoreal and change how it is lit. The people, the place and the action stay exactly as written. Only the mood moves.
15 looks
colour grade
Golden Hour Film
The last twenty minutes of daylight, stretched. Honey light, soft flare, and a warmth that makes everyone look like they are remembering something good.
colour grade
High Contrast Mono
No colour, no mercy. One hard key light, shadows with edges you could cut yourself on, and grain like silver.
colour grade
Pastel Dream
Lilac, mint and peach lit like a daydream. Overexposed, milky and soft enough to fall asleep in.
colour grade
Gritty Urban
Cold concrete under flat overcast light. Shot like nobody was trying to make it pretty.
colour grade
Seventies Kodak
Faded orange and mustard, light bleeding around every highlight. Looks like it came out of a shoebox.
colour grade
Teal and Orange
The modern blockbuster grade. Cold shadows, warm faces, glossy and expensive.
colour grade
Saturated Tropical
Turquoise, lime and hot coral under a hard midday sun. Every colour turned all the way up.
colour grade
Low Key Candlelit
Mostly darkness, with small pools of warm light doing all the work. Intimate and slightly conspiratorial.
colour grade
Clean Commercial
Bright, airy and nowhere to hide. The light a product gets photographed in.
colour grade
VHS Retro
Tracking bands, smeared colour and blown highlights. A tape rewound one time too many.
colour grade
Desert Heat
Sun-bleached ochre and pale sand, the sky washed to nothing, air shimmering off the ground.
colour grade
Cold Winter
Everything drained to blue-grey and white. Flat light, cold haze, and breath you can see.
colour grade
Underwater
Deep teal with god rays coming from somewhere above and particles drifting past the lens.
colour grade
Natural Documentary
Barely a grade at all. Honest daylight and honest skin, like someone simply happened to be filming.
Same story, different material
Render media
These change what the scene is made of. Nothing in frame stays photographic: the characters are drawn, sculpted, knitted or painted along with everything around them.
7 looks
render medium
Anime Cel
Hand-painted animation. Inked outlines, flat cel shadows and luminous skies. Drawn, never photographed.
render medium
Comic Ink
Heavy brush linework, halftone dots and flat spot colour on newsprint. A panel, not a frame.
render medium
Animated 3D
The family-film look. Big expressive eyes, soft geometry and warm cinematic light on a stylised world.
render medium
Claymation
Plasticine puppets with the thumbprints still in them, lit like a miniature set. Charmingly handmade.
render medium
Storybook
Gouache and coloured pencil on paper you can see the tooth of. Gentle, muted and hand-drawn.
render medium
Made of Yarn
A world crocheted out of wool, where everyone is a stuffed doll with stitched seams and an embroidered face.
render medium
Oil Painted
Loaded brush strokes, impasto ridges and canvas weave showing through. Painterly edges instead of focus.
Same moment, different century
Worlds
Neither a grade nor a material. A world sets the production design of everything in shot, so the costumes, props, signage and light sources all belong somewhere else.
2 looks
world
Steampunk
Brass, rivets and pressure gauges. Victorian tailoring, gaslight glow and steam drifting through every shot.
world
Futuristic
The same place and the same moment, advanced a hundred years. New architecture, new vehicles, new light.
Pick one and start
All twenty-four are live in the style picker on every project. Choosing at the start costs nothing. Switching later means regenerating scenes you already paid for.