Montreal’s Rodeo FX, known for providing high-end visual effects, post-production, animation, and other creative services, has expanded its offering into color grading by opening a new Baselight grading suite led by new senior colorist, Ana Escorse.
By adding color, Rodeo FX can now serve its clients' projects from start to finish. Rodeo’s new color suite includes a Baselight Two and Blackboard Classic control panel, running on Baselight 6.0. Escorse, who has been using Baselight for a number of years, will work either remotely or on site in the newly built color suite in Toronto.
“Adding color to our services was a natural move forward for Rodeo FX,” said Connie Dercho, executive producer at Rodeo FX advertising and experiences. “Providing our clients premium color grading with an elite colorist like Ana Escorse and a state-of-the-art color suite equipped with Baselight perfectly complements what we do. We're excited to be broadening our offering and servicing our clients locally and internationally with color grading of the highest level.”
Rodeo FX already has a well-established VFX pipeline, but Baselight integrates several mechanisms that will help streamline the workflow between color and other departments. The compatibility with OpenEXR and the seamless ability to transfer BLG files from Baselight to various applications means sharing, viewing and applying color decisions directly in VFX software can be completed with ease.
Award-winning colorist Ana Escorse joins Rodeo FX as senior colorist. Her work on Lovezinho earned her the Music Video award at the 2022 FilmLight Color Awards presented at the EnergaCamerImage Film Festival in Poland and she joined the 2023 jury panel alongside leading creatives and cinematographers such as Lawrence Sher ASC, Greg Fraser ACS, ASC and Natasha Braier, ASC, ADF.
“Baselight is widely recognized and respected in the film and television industry and allows me to offer our clients and collaborators the most advanced features and highest-quality image processing available in post,” said Escorse. “FilmLight's commitment to continuously developing new technologies and features as well as Baselight's customization and control make it a very efficient and reliable tool, allowing me to focus on the creative process and client collaboration. In my opinion, Baselight is a choice that shows Rodeo's commitment to a standard that elevates our work and allows us to meet the ever-evolving demands of the post-production industry.”
Rodeo FX has offices in Monreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Los Angeles and Paris.
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