Foreword: As early as I remember - I always wondered why films from the west always look "better". From my early assessment as a 13-year-old there seemed to be a vast difference with the way color in films evolved/was evolving in the west as compared to where I was born - South Asia. Much later in life social media lent me a term, and I say this quite cautiously - "Color Grading". As someone on the outside - about 10 years back if you googled "Color in films", the results were a bunch of tricks sold by folks pretending to understand color. I imbibed it and for a very brief period told myself that I know a thing or two about digital color. It was easy to be a one-eyed king among the blind. My newly honed understanding of color earned me the privilege of time, but delusions can only get you so far.

It didn't feel right - my traditional approach to color began to break - obviously. Fortunately, at this point enough "right" resources were already pollinated by someone somewhere for me to evolve. And from there I took about two years to grasp and gain a remote understanding of where the debate on digital color is headed. Currently I am at a position where I have some objective sense of what colorists and the creative communities value (and I am grateful to be here!), and I have chosen the philosophy I want to explore for now. Colorist Foundry and Filmverse Project are my attempts to engage-in and give back to this community from which I am yet to learn a lot more. Here I aim at providing a good number of real resources for free. But some resources must be created with the aim of sustaining the channel, community and me. And while it comes as a standard piece of software - attached is my word that it'll keep evolving as my understanding of digital color expands