Recreating the Look of The Batman

Recreating the look of The Batman with color grading.
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[@jasoneaken3244]

2 things that could seem contradictory to one another. 1) This video was super impressive from the perspective of how much one can AFFECT and CHANGE an image after the fact, and how much of a complex combination is needed to create what, at a glance, seems like a simple "look." I'm a writer, director, and sometimes editor, who sometimes has to color grade and it's a good reminder of how large the gap is between myself and people who REALLY know what they're doing. 2) I didn't find either image to be particularly evocative of "The Batman." First shot got closer than 2nd shot, but still maybe only got 30-40% of the way there.

[@pietroronzoni8869]

Cool take on the Batman look! From a colorist point of view I would suggest you to get the look as close as possible without fancy tools. Grading by selections makes really hard to grade a project consistently from shot to shot. Overall I really appreciated the video. 🙏🏻

[@malypavel25]

I was just saying something thing similar while being more harsh. He knows a thing or two but is not a colourist!

[@theaterelevenpictures2283]

Hey Pietro, can you expound on this? What do you mean by fancy tools? Do you mean the film convert plugin? Not challenging you, I'm just not a colorist so want to understand more on what you're saying. Thanks!

[@nedstudios6490]

Pietro, fire up your channel and show us OBI-WAN-Ronzoni. No one as a decent channel covering much in the way of grading, unless you're a DJI drone fanatic.

[@securityg]

Exactly! I'm looking at this and thinking; 'DAM, just give me Windows Moviemaker!' But seriously, it does appear to be not only a tedious task, but like you said, CONSISTENT. It is MUCH better and more time management to do your best to get that color or look during filming as much as you can and IF there are any color tweaks, then make sure you have a STORYBOARD that explicitly shows those tweaks and work off of that. - James D. Watkins, artistic director of PHOENIX PRODUCTIONS.

[@swerdnagk611]

oh my goodness using radial blur with a power window was the trick i needed to hear about! i'd been trying to see how to emulate that look for so long, never thought of a power window! could be cool to add some chromatic aberration using the same technique too -- really cool stuff in this episode!

[@iancook8320]

you forgot the most important ingredient, the focus fall off that are on the side of the frames

[@torchmedia800]

Haven't watched you guys since about 2017. I made the old wooden 2x4 jib back when i was rocking the kit lens. Glad to see how much your channel and these tutorials have grown!

[@graysontheovercomer]

I agree. Snydercut is the only version of Justice League.

[@savagebeafy]

FACTS

[@henrychinaski5938]

That's depressing.

[@graysontheovercomer]

@@henrychinaski5938 nah, what's depressing is that WB tried to cover up someone's work by replacing them with Joss (horrible person) Whedon, and putting a cgi mustache onto Henry Cavill

[@henrychinaski5938]

@@graysontheovercomer So is that. But letting that Hack near these characters was always gonna be a pile of shit.

[@graysontheovercomer]

@@henrychinaski5938 interesting. Why would they let a hack release his version of the movie if it held zero substance? And for the "hack" to make a version of JL that is universally considered better than the theatrical version, and leaving people curious about the sequels is a bit of a contradiction, isn't it? Almost like you have an opinion others don't share. Maybe if others aren't sharing, you shouldn't share either. Keep it to yourself next time.

[@devonparsons7848]

it’s so nice running back to this channel after such a long time, happy to see my boys are still doing good

[@NotoriousClub]

Some crazy awesome stuff here. You guys always come in with the best content for YEARS. I remember prop videos is how I found you guys and you’ve been an incredible help since. Much love to everyone at film riot. ♥️

[@mosesswingle9158]

amazing work guys!! thx so much for all of the awesome content, motivation,and inspiration!!

[@NickBB]

Pretty amazing the detail of color correction that can be applied ! thanks for sharing

[@facuuaf]

Everything is great excepto for the skin tone and orange color treatment. The first clip appears to struggle with gradients since the turquoise and orange around the fluorescent light are kind of a mess, and the arm in the second clip bleeds it's color to the shirt that should be all white

[@DLHMedia]

“There you go, crazy easy!” Lol. Great work

[@ifound14u]

Using Resolve gives me more reason to watch Film Riot!

[@alexanderwindh4830]

This really makes me appreciate filmmaking more!

[@nipungrover7058]

Haha I noticed how the colors on your set were changing too. How can someone not love your channel, that's really a clever implementation.

[@AMD_Potato]

"Zack Snyder's Justice League is the only version." Instant like 👍

[@marvelstudios3565]

Victor Stone (Cyborg) cries because his daddy wouldn't watch his game. 😂 His mother dies in a car accident because she's trying to comfort his bitch ass instead of watching the road. 😂 Victor goes on to blame his father for what happened.😂😂😂🤣🤣 Imagine you're Joss Whedon, someone gives you this material and 40 days to make a good movie out of it. 😂

[@AMD_Potato]

@@marvelstudios3565 okay.

[@perusing350]

THANK YOU. downloaded the free The Batman lut as soon as I finished your video. thank you, thank you.

[@Breonnick]

I think one of the first things you need to do is bring the highlights down as much as possible. Movie's no where near this contrasty.

[@IDKOKIDK]

Davinci Resolve nodes look frightening

[@clark031290]

I love the "There's no other Version" Exactly! That is fucking correct!

[@camerafx24]

And this is why I hire a colorist for all my work. I wish I could get that good at color but I know where my limits lie I’ll stick to directing. Lol

[@conbuch9758]

Ive been soaking up as much info as I can for the last6 months working on my first project. Currently having to accept that I probably can't be writer, 3d artist, animator, director, colorist, VFX, voice actor, editor, and cinematographer all at once :( lol

[@ZachTigue]

Have never used color warper before. Gonna have to have a go at it now!

[@KineticEgg]

More Davinci Resolve sir! Always great when you show warez that is truly cross platform... excellent vid as always

[@dan_7413]

Just saw this for the second time in the movies

[@prajwalkoppad2958]

Please do the MoonKnight transformation!!

[@dice268926]

I honestly see a lot of Snyder in the visual tones of The Batman, Matt Reeves matured and enhanced it

[@aaronmedina182]

Absolutely not

[@leotownsend]

very nerdy tute. enjoyed

[@dotnet8925]

we need more of these stuffs

[@markkirk8939]

This Batman lut is stellar on LumaFusion

[@haanw8570]

Thanks to this video my respect for film editors and colour graders has skyrocketed Amazing work mate!

[@jonahhuckel4838]

Amazing!! The shots look so good. Can we maybe have a tutorial on how to grade Filmic Log iPhone footage?

[@sangpanitera]

I heard he said : "crazy easy".

[@ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΚΑΡΑΤΖΙΚΑ]

Really appreciated the tutorial but I am horrible at Davinci resolve. Could you make the tutorial again with premiere pro if thats possible

[@savagebeafy]

I like the 9:48 and 9:49 shot IMO.

[@karliemorris7318]

wonderful ryan, good job

[@JoshuaDupiton]

Thank you for this break down!

[@johnnybaudelaire4954]

quite extraordinary/. amazing explanation.

[@CinemaJacket]

Thought I was decent at color grading in DaVinci but after watching this? God I suck.

[@alanmartin4546]

Which software is this

[@cloud9comedy128]

you guys are so helpful!

[@davidlovephotog2]

Also try and shoot on Arri or Red.

[@dosomestuff1949]

Tbh the colour grading in the Batman also looks really snyderish

[@XyenzFyxion]

'Or, from the Justice League. His (Snyder's) version. There is no other version.' 😏 *Like*

[@marvelstudios3565]

Victor Stone (Cyborg) cries because his daddy wouldn't watch his game. 😂 His mother dies in a car accident because she's trying to comfort his bitch ass instead of watching the road. 😂 Victor goes on to blame his father for what happened.😂😂😂🤣🤣 Imagine you're Joss Whedon, someone gives you this material and 40 days to make a good movie out of it. 😂

[@GabrielXzavier]

is it really practical to move between premiere & resolve for color correction? i own a copy of resolve but i never actually tried to use it because im so used to adobe everything

[@Kainthemain]

I think we can all agree Ryan is the real batman we all love

[@s6lken]

whats the background music starting at 7:57

[@krishnansrinivasan830]

Brilliant & Thanks :)

[@adityasuryafilms6880]

Can we do it in premier pro .??

[@PotatoClips]

what AE folks see from this vid: hmmm... curves, it is

[@Alec_keski]

are you editing fully in Davinci resolve now?

[@notcho_o1685]

Bleach bypass red orange turquoise added into a shawdow and a green into the middle and grainny look

[@lifewalklens8447]

Awesome

[@subbu4230]

Batman 🦇 👏 fantastic movie 👍

[@nedstudios6490]

Bruh, your cop on the left is smiling right as he turn to the wall WTF? lol

[@CameronGallagher96]

Resolve FTW!

[@LostUtopiaFilms]

Love your work!

[@ryanjosephdp]

I love you guys... but this is not the best approach ive seen. I'm sure you've heard of Qazi who does some fantastic color grading work. Thats the bar for color grading on KZbin thus far.

[@filmymediah2646]

Why devinchi .. you used to love premiere Pro..

[@filmriot]

Still love Premiere. DaVinci is superior when it comes to grading.

[@adrianrale]

more davinci colour grading tutorials please. This was dope 🔥

[@AustinThomasFilms]

You guys could make millions selling custom movie-themed LUTs... just saying!

[@Kainthemain]

Ryan lost me at gamma

[@morad_familia_kero]

#dc,

[@jackpotrules]

HUH?

[@malypavel25]

It’s crazy how many things Rian knows about film making but colourgrading is not one of them. Don’t follow this tutorial if you want to be taken seriously as a colourist!

[@harrypotterfan2536]

Wdym?

[@malypavel25]

@@harrypotterfan2536 which part?

[@harrypotterfan2536]

@@malypavel25 well, you said he doesn't know anything about color grading-so I want you to tell me why. If you have to go on a long rant, that's fine.

[@bryanguzman2093]

😂

[@PuehringerMediaFilmMusic]

Hey Ryan, why don't you guys just produce your own feature film? I know making a movie is crazy expensive, but considering the tools and knowlege you guys have at your disposal - it seems like this shouldn't be a problem at all... the technology has really come far, cameras are cheaper than ever and everbody can do visual effects nowadays... the tools are all there. So why not just produce a movie without Hollywood? If anybody can pull this off - it's you guys!

[@funfilm77]

Um, what?

[@TheMrGiannisgr]

No.

[@Shrike8473]

Second

[@ymer2501]

putting NR in the 1st node..you guys watched Qazi's youtube right??? hahahahahhahahahah

[@filmriot]

Haven't heard of them, but ill look them up. We work with a pro colorist on these episodes, putting NR first is how he does it.

[@kokoloko12398]

If you need to apply noise reduction, you have to do it on the original footage before any other effect. If you wait for the last node to use noise reduction, you'll lose a lot of details because the noise will be affected and increased by all grading steps. So get an image as clean as possible directly from the beginning.

[@Sagar_G_Sharma_ContentCreator]

@@filmriot also look for Darren Mostyn along with Waqas Qazi, most of the stuff here if very questionable. i totally love your all other videos and big fan too.... but this colour grading video is almost like putting barbeque sauce in Tea and calling it Barbeque tea.. no offense....

[@emilianomood]

that is not even close to the batman look

[@TreyBlythe]

Step 1. Watch Se7en Setp 2. Watch Se7en a few more times to make sure it really looks like Se7en. Step 3. Remake Se7en with a guy named Batman

[@snehadeepchatterjee2949]

The Snyder cut is as bad as the original one.

[@colorist_asankin]

fix skin tone - oh my godness)))

[@akmen95]

Its important to notice, all movies use a given color palette(and lighting), wich in itself gives a prelimenary look to the film, gives a distiction how the grade will (in a good case) compliment the whole process. So for example for BvS low light looks you cant use Whedons fan edit level lighting AND grade.

[@Deedzproductionz]

Do you think movies keep that color palette for ever scene? Or just for certain ones? Can you have different color palettes in a film

[@Chris-Chan]

@@Deedzproductionz im no expert, but I’d assume it doesn’t change. I’m sure there’s exceptions like slightly tweaking your palette in certain scenes, but I don’t know about changing it completely

[@Deedzproductionz]

@@Chris-Chan thank you that helps alot

[@chinesedramalands]

Who has seen the new Batman 🦇 movie 🙋‍♂️

[@AWSVids]

It's so interesting to me that we went from, 20 years ago, shooting on film and doing a digital intermediate in post, then delivering on film... to now, shooting on digital and doing a film intermediate in post, then delivering on digital. Fascinating little role reversal that's happened.

[@ErisedMediaCo]

I love seeing DaVinci tutorials. Not an Adobe user so this helps me a lot. Do more of these!!! lol. Thanks guys

[@dwaynefoong]

straightforward, unpretentious and effective. though i can't remember watching any davinci resolve tutorials in your channel. in my mind you guys have been editing with premiere and after effects. i am using davinci resolve and will definitely experiment with bleach bypass and glow. thank you!

[@leoenin]

Oh yes, please do more Davinci videos!

[@shankard8007]

please make more davinci resolve tutorials 🔥🔥

[@MovieNostalgiaEdits]

pls bring back the Jurrasic park video pls :) favorite video also great content!

[@mindcraftful]

Ryan knows which justice league was better 👍😎

[@crazypabs1]

Correct. There is no other version.

[@marvelstudios3565]

Victor Stone (Cyborg) cries because his daddy wouldn't watch his game. 😂 His mother dies in a car accident because she's trying to comfort his bitch ass instead of watching the road. 😂 Victor goes on to blame his father for what happened.😂😂😂🤣🤣 Imagine you're Joss Whedon, someone gives you this material and 40 days to make a good movie out of it. 😂

[@LostUtopiaFilms]

Awesome breakdown! Resolve makes color work so much fun

[@chanceseverson]

I think it's important to note in this video that you try to create a "high contrast" grade when in reality, the batman was very low contrast. The difference is that it just had a more striking switch between darks and lights. This awesome video by Waqas Qazi goes in detail into the scopes from the Batman trailer and if you look at them the contrast is very low (with most of the scopes residing in the bottom half). So in reality if you want to emulate the Batman look both shoot in a more low key environment and keep your contrast low. Upping the contrast, like done here, actually strays quite a bit from what the color grade was attempting to do, which is look dirty and lived in. the video by Waqas for anyone wondering (its great if you want a deep dive): kzbin.info/www/bejne/earFgYB4dtClq7M

[@kokoloko12398]

At first look, we can say this is low contrast, but technically, no! The bleach bypass technic is used precisely to increase contrast without affecting saturation. Check the scopes of the examples in this video. They are appropriately placed in the bottom half, similar to Batman. But then, it all depends on how was shot the footage you are working on. Increasing contrast will push midtones and shadows down. The highlights must be set adequately during shooting. We cannot cheat the lighting.

[@kokoloko12398]

@@Rogeras32 David Cole used bleach bypass on The Batman, as he did on Dune. He explained that in an interview for Filmmakers Academy website and on the video linked below (around 28:30). The only saturated color is the orange, everything else is desaturated. At 1:00 you can see David Cole working on the color grading of The Batman in Resolve and his complexe node tree. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWOqnKp5a9OYn7c

[@CoveringFish]

@@kokoloko12398 did they take it out? I don’t see a node tree

[@judithhaller1680]

A complete DaVinci/Fusion VFX Tutorial would be fine, instead of boring After Effects :-)

[@normanlemarie9991]

And these kinds of tutorials just show that even with a lot of work on one shot, you can't match a movie's look if your footage wasn't shot like the movie itself.

[@anthonykearneyfilms]

The Batman was BADASS 💯

[@dominiquetolley8246]

I’m new to editing so this honestly sounded like a foreign language.

[@aloyminimum]

Can you do an in depth look into lighting, I just can’t get a grasp on it

[@gravemarker]

Maybe because I’m an old guy raised on Technicolor, but I despise the orange and teal, washed out look of modern films. Shoot it in color or B&W, don’t give us mud.

[@FuegoPazzo]

Can we get the clips somewhere so we can play along?

[@rawcam16mm57]

Ryan i challenge you to shoot on actual Film it can be in 16mm or 35mm

[@morbidstudios2507]

nice

[@tommygreenbeans]

i would like to add that most feature films also have a certain look depending on the brand of camera and its digital sensor, the brand of lens and the glass it has, and even the type of lights and lighting setup it has as well. in the example of the batman, greig fraser utilized digital arri alexa cameras and cooke lenses; both unique artifacts and optics with infamously characteristic looks. fraser is also a big champion of using led lights as well. (for more info watch In Depth Cine's vid on the cinematography style of Greig Fraser just goes to show that every layer that your visual language has always impacts the next. take away one aspcet of that language and its not the same. anyways, very helpful tutorial on how to use the different features of davinci resolve!

[@davidvesseur]

Snyder's Justice League was trash... Lingers over these "oooohhh" and "aaahhhh" moments that have nothing to do with the story...

[@CortesFantásticosOficial]

Can i do this in free version?

[@Brad__McCormick]

This movie was way too dark. Almost like they didn’t light the set just to make sure the post edit couldn’t light it up any.

[@AndyHu206]

you lost me at Davinci

[@BenyaminLorit]

"Or from the Justice League. His version. There is no other version." *Take my Like, good sir. I insist.*