Construction site for dreams illustrated.

Well, not quite - DCI is a standard, whereas this post is in preparation for my home studio. One of the most pressing questions is, surprisingly, the color. Now, there are at least thee aspects to it: 1) producing color accurate work, 2) viewing color accurate work and 3) not living in a cave. Surprisingly, the last is perhaps the hardest thing since it stands in conflict with the rest.

To clarify,here are visualizations of the Munsell colors N8 and N7:
 

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Munsell N8	Munsell N7

 

Try to imagine yourself sitting in a room made of either of those grays. But before we get deeper into this, which one of the shades should I be talking about? N7 or N8? For print, it seems to be the N8. 

It is somewhat curious that the wall paints are not often mentioned in any detail. The Digital Intermediate guides only mention turning off all the lights. People say little other than that it should be neutral. All the mentions of N8 seems to be from press people. ISO standard does not take the paints into account, only the wall reflectivity.

So, choose the one you prefer, and paint the walls and the ceiling, and in principle any surface that reflects light elsewhere to the room. I’ll probably go with the darker tone so that the room doesn’t look too bland.

Links:
Munsell Neutral Gray Paint
Digital Cinema Initiatives
The Darkroom Makes a Comeback - Part 1
The Darkroom Makes a Comeback - Part 2
Digital Fact Book
Digital Intermediate
The Quantel Guide to Digital Intermediate

Time to start afresh. The precious version of the blog was down for considerable time due to myself getting a new apartment. Which, of course, needed an Internet connection that took a good while to get. I updated my home studio infrastructure at the same time and decided that while at it, I might go all the way with the blog as well.

So let’s see what comes out of this blog this time. I’ll try to update the looks of this post to better reflect the content of the site and the person behind it, but don’t wait this to happen very soon. As of now I’m fully occupied with the living arrangements, masters thesis in art, work and preparations of a few conference presentations.