Interview with Thatcher Freeman
Update: 2024-07-20
Description
In this episode, I'll be talking to Thatcher Freeman. He's a California-based colorist and software engineer. For his day job, he's an actual AI specialist. He's made great contributions to the color grading and software coding communities. He's also a filmmaker, so I wanted to talk to him to find out what makes him tick.
We discuss:
- (00:00 ) - Intro
- (01:10 ) - Interview starts
- (01:57 ) - Thatcher's background in film making.
- (05:01 ) - The difficulties on finding resources on color theory.
- (06:41 ) - Current industry trends.
- (09:14 ) - A colorist's value.
- (10:21 ) - The combination of art and technology.
- (13:14 ) - Freelance pressures.
- (29:14 ) - Subtle vs Pushed graded.
- (33:00 ) - Things that break the signal.
- (54:29 ) - Personal taste in films and watching as a professional.
- (01:08:19 ) - Thatcher's DCTL library.
- (01:15:22 ) - Advice for DCTL coding.
- (01:36:23 ) - Current Research.
- (01:41:27 ) - Outro
- (01:41:49 ) - End logo
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