THE TEAM
ADRIAN COLBERT
Adrian began working in post production at Pacific Ocean Post in 1997 after being Honorably Discharged as a Flight Engineer in the US Army. Here he became adept with Scanning Film Negative and using laser film recorders to output completed VFX shots. During this time, he worked on: TITANIC, ARMAGEDDON, THE X-FILES MOVIE, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE MASK OF ZORRO,STAR TREK INSURRECTION, MYSTERY MEN, and many others.
In 2000 Colbert moved to Cinesite Hollywood to become an instrumental figure in the transition of the post production world into digital color correction. Adrian was able to rapidly grow and hone new skills with digital technology on such large scale productions as: MOULIN ROUGE, PEARL HARBOR, ICE AGE, JIMMY NEUTRON, OCEAN'S 11, and SHREK, to name a few. These experiences led him to supportive work on 'O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? which heralded the dawn of the digital era.
In 2002 the company Efilm was born with the goal of being the first Digital Film Lab in the industry. Efilm enlisted Colbert as a colorist assistant in one of the two functioning Digital Color Suites in Los Angeles. Here, Adrian worked with: Barry Levinson, the Cohen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, Peter Weir, Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Soderbergh, and Roland Emerich. He also collaborated with Directors of Photography including: Guillermo Navarro, Emanuel Ubezki “Chivo”, Ueli Steiger, Allen Daviau, Stephen Goldblatt, Mathew Leonetti, Ellen Kuras, Caleb Deschanel, and Russel Boyd.
Colbert’s drive to be constantly improving his skills led him to Modern VideoFilm, the most cutting edge digital lab at that time. Here he worked on: WALK THE LINE, HITCH, TALK TO ME, 3:10 TO YUMA, and AVATAR, and BLADE RUNNER: SPECIAL EDITION. Colbert continued working with top Director’s such as: Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Michael Mann.
Adrian was then recruited by Digital Revolution Studios, a production company specializing in stereographic 3D films and television shows. Here Colbert and Craig Tanner color corrected the first multi part sports reality series filmed entirely in 3D, BULLPROOF. Several other 3D projects were completed for 3net, a 3D network on Direct TV.
Colbert was then contacted by FuseFX as a Visual Effects Editor. Adrian quickly demonstrated his mastery not only of the digital editing technology but also his knowledge of the production process in its entirety to improve Fuse’s pipeline for episodic television. As the Facility Colorist he worked on several series including: AMERICAN HORROR STORY, HELL ON WHEELS, LAST RESORT, GLEE, MIKE & MOLLY, and MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. before working on Michael’s Bay’s TRANSFORMERS 4.
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