Best skin tones

[Jason Von Drayco]

What are your top 3 films that you think have the best digitally acquired skin tones? Can be shot with any camera, any amount of post/grading done, make up tricks Bla Bla

[Marlon Torres]

Tree of Life comes to mind.

[Bob Gundu]

Tree of Life comes to mind.

What? I thought there was only a limited amount of digital shots and they were not of people?

[Philipe Ratton]

And you are right.
The Great Gatsby trailler looks awesome.

[Kemalettin Sert]

this -> http://i.imgur.com/78Tjh.jpg

[Bruce Allen]

So far... none have come close to film for me.

The Avengers worked pretty well. Although I do prefer the look of Downey Jr's character in Iron Man... so yes I still prefer film. But overall, the skin tones hit the "good enough" mark for me.

Slumdog Millionaire worked in terms of saturated, filmic skin tones that fit the story - although that was not entirely digital.

Recently I worked on The Dictator, and the skin tones were pretty natural in that too.

Social Network, District 9, Zodiac and Dragon Tattoo had skin tones that worked for their stories but I certainly wouldn't want those tones in my any of the movies I want to make. Just a personal choice.

Still waiting for one film shot on RED that makes me go "oooh, I want that look for my movie!"...

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Timur Civan]

The new bond film looks pretty good.....

[Satsuki Murashige]

Heya Marlon, Tree of Life was 35mm and Master Primes: http://www.theasc.com/ac_magazine/Au...Life/page3.php.

[Marlon Torres]

Ahhh... sorry, somehow I missed the phrase "digitally acquired". I was thinking of just skin tones in general.

[M Most]

Hmm, "Avengers," "The Dictator," "Skyfall" - all Alexa shows. "Social Network," "District 9," and "Dragon Tattoo" - all what I would call "distressed looks," or at the very least, "stylized" looks. There seems to be a bit of a pattern here, in that Red seems to have been chosen for pictures that were designed around "distressed" pallettes, where Alexa seems to have been chosen for shows that were going for less "stylized," more conventionally beautiful images. At this point in both products' development, it seems that the general perception of each is a bit different, if one is to believe that at the studio level, cameras are chosen for similar reasons to film stocks, that is, they are chosen because they are appropriate for the story and the look that is desired by the creative team. That is not to say that you can't shoot conventionally beautiful images with Red, or that you can't shoot "distressed" images with Alexa. But it does seem that at a certain level, they are being employed on pictures that represent their perceived strengths. Perhaps some upcoming productions like Gatsby and Hobbit will challenge that perception. We'll see.