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SIGGRAPH 2007 — SAN DIEGO, CA (August 6, 2007) - Duiker Research Corp., a California-based innovator in imaging and color tools for motion pictures. is announcing Color Symmetry, a suite of plug-ins that for the first time allows film “looks” to be easily emulated and previewed within a wide array of animation, graphics and effects packages. Color Symmetry lets companies handle color accurately and consistently across mediums, applications, platforms and even facilities. Color Symmetry additionally helps companies build robust color pipelines to support complex feature film projects right out of the box.

The plug-ins are powered by a custom library of film profiles, proprietary Look-Up Tables (LUTs), color correction nodes and transformation techniques that eliminate color disparity between the way images appear when being manipulated, integrated and rendered and the way they would look on real film stock. The same functionality, film profile display mechanisms and color correction operations are mirrored in all Color Symmetry-supported applications, which cover a complete range of popular products for painting, compositing, animation, visual effects, editing and DI.

“Color Symmetry solves a fundamental digital post-production problem by allowing artists creating and rendering shots and elements to see the images as they would appear on film,” said Haarm-Pieter Duiker, Founder, Duiker Research Corp. “The plug-in suite eliminates guesswork and redundancy from the process and gives any studio the ability to bridge the gap between film color imagery and color imagery displayed in visual effects and post-production software without having to constantly print film to check results. Color Symmetry also tackles the classic challenge of working consistently between the worlds of 2D live-action color imagery and 3D lighting and high-dynamic color range.”

“Color Symmetry directly addresses our production needs for film look emulation, color space conversion and color operations in one consistent, cross-platform package,” said Matt McDonald, a founding member and co-owner of Evil Eye Pictures, San Francisco. “Color Symmetry makes it possible to have a single set of professional-quality color pipeline tools for all of our core compositing, animation and rendering software and it‘s a solution our company has been seeking for quite some time.” Read on at The Briefing Room