Generated still — personal work
Palette
- #160805
- #874726
- #c57a37
- #87968a
- #fbe478
Editorial1:14:53:4
Prism Skin
Hard specular refraction thrown across skin. Colour arrives as light on the subject rather than in the grade.
Works for
- Beauty and cosmetics work
- Beauty frames that need colour without a colour cast
- Close-ups that can carry very high-frequency detail
Fails on
- Wider framing — the refraction stops registering as light and starts looking like noise
- Soft diffused sources, which cannot throw a hard enough caustic
- Grading colour in afterwards; it has to come from the light or it looks pasted
- Beauty
- Editorial
- Specular
- Colourful
The distinction that matters: the colour is in the scene, not in the grade. A rainbow LUT over neutral skin looks nothing like this, because a real caustic lands unevenly and follows the form. Getting that wrong is the usual failure of this look.
No motion spec yet. This entry is a still, and motion character is half of a video style — how it eases, how much it drifts, what it does on a cut. Until that is defined and tested, the field is left empty rather than guessed at.
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