Look Dev Is Not Color Grading with the HAL Pictures Team
From Color & Coffee by Jason Bowdach
April 3, 2026 · 58 min · Season 3 · Episode 8
About this episode
The episode discusses the differences between look development and color grading with the HAL Pictures team.
Look development and color grading share tools, but they are not the same job. We sit down with the Hal Pictures team — Martin Roux, Olivier Patron, Paul Morin, and Antoine Mayette — to dig into how a group of French DOPs, a DIT, and a director built the tools they couldn't find anywhere else: Diachromie and Diaphanie. The conversation starts where the frustration did. Post houses in France lacked proper look development infrastructure, and what existed elsewhere was either inaccessible or wr...
People in this episode
Host: Jason Bowdach
Guests: Martin Roux, Olivier Patron, Paul Morin, Antoine Mayette
Topics covered
- look development
- color grading
- film tools
- French DOPs
- post production
- interview
Keywords
- look development
- color grading
- Diachromie
- Diaphanie
- post production
- DOPs
- DIT
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: HAL Pictures
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