Loren White
"My mom is a nurse and my dad is a hair stylist and a musician. They’re the best, they’ve been together since they were teenagers, and they’ve always supported my sister and I in everything we wanted to do."
"I went to Vista High for high school and that was where I got interested in film, I helped with the school’s morning broadcast and started cutting sizzles for school events."
"After High School I went to CalArts. When I started I wasn’t sure if I wanted to focus on editing or cinematography. Luckily I was exposed to a lot of different tracks at CalArts. Unfortunately at that time (2006‐2009) color grading was a dark art, you couldn’t find a grading system to learn on, they just didn’t exist outside of post houses due to price. I finished with a bachelor of fine arts in film/video."
"I started learning several different software packages - Resolve, Baselight, Lustre, etc and researched them. I ended up seeing a video of a colorist doing a presentation and I knew that was what I wanted to do. Prior to seeing that video of the colorist working with those raw, digital files I thought of telecine as more of a technical/pragmatic process than a creative one. After seeing that video and what the grading tools could do I knew it was so much more of a creative process and it really spoke to me."
"Right out of school I got a gig making Japanese anime more “American friendly.” I did things like lengthen dresses, turned cigarettes into lollipops, etc, etc in After Effects."
"On the side I set up a makeshift grading suite in my girlfriend’s apartment and started doing a ton of CalArts student’s work. Really the only places you could grade at the time were post houses. I basically worked for free to gather footage for my reel. It started to snowball and I left the animation gig and started grading freelance/independently full time."
"I ended up grading a feature doc and a short that went to Sundance in 2010. Climate Refugees, directed by Michael P. Nash and Thompson, directed by a close friend and fellow CalArtian, Jason Tippet. At that time there were very few freelance colorists with a reel and since I was young and eager I ended up working here and internationally in Istanbul, India and China over the next 4 years."
"My family is full of creative types. I think just being around that kind of energy my entire life made me more aware of the effect that image can have on people. Ultimately, as a colorist my goal is to be the stylist of the image, to know what kind of look is going to best serve the piece."
"I have an office in Hollywood but I spend about half of my time travelling to other companies and grading in house with them. More and more clients are comfortable doing work remotely, so I’m finding myself doing a lot of spots for agencies outside of LA, like Shanghai, Mumbai etc. I’ve been doing a lot of VR this year, which has been challenging and exciting. Other than that I would really want to keep doing more of the same!"
“I married the girl (Jen) whose apartment I had my first makeshift color suite in. We just had our first child, my son, August!"