Neutral Balance Grade: How to Perfectly Integrate Film & CG Renders for VFX Compositing

Walkthrough of the process in VFX for doing a reverse-out neutral grade by calibrating the image to match the color gamut and white balance of the target color space (ACEScg) using a Macbeth color chart, and likewise calibrate the HDR captured on set to the same target color space, using this to light the CG assets with neutralized image-based lighting.

DOWNLOADS
HDR assets from the Katana Lighting and Rendering Master Class:
https://learn.foundry.com/path/11/kat...

Marco Meyer's Color Target Gizmo (including NumPy)
https://sharktacos.github.io/VFX-soft...

CHAPTERS
0:00 Understanding Color Balance
2:08 Reverse-Out Color Balance with Grade Node
4:30 Neutralizing Film Plate with a Color Checker
8:56 Neutralizing HDR for image-based lighting
17:19 Workflow Review