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I am in Vancouver BC, Canada or what is now known as Hollywood North. A friend who works on the Stargate TV series here in set design asked if it was possible to get an exact real world paint match from a digitally created image. He claimed this is a major problem industry wide. Has anyone had the same experience, any comments would be appreciated.
A nice idea but one that simply doesn’t pan out in the real world for a variety of fundamental reasons. If you cruise eBay, you’ll see digital paint mixers that were designed to get a reasonable match for an electronically generated color selling for pennies on the dollar. You’ll never get it perfect. Don’t even try. But you can save a lot of work if you try for a close match, and then fine it up in post.
There are handy factory floor style devices, such as the Hunter mini lab spectro, that are used to measure color values. These are is used by appliance and auto manufacturers to check whether a plastic accessory is a close match to a car interior. Get one for the CGI folks, and have them measure the colors used on the set. Keep in mind that the colors will change depending on the lighting, and you may want to measure at D50, D60, etc. Then use those Lab values, converted in Photoshop to RGB, for the models.
This will get the colors of the models close, then color correct in post production to get a good match between CGI and set.
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Mike Russell
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