ICC in the Movie Industry

March 1997 / International Features / Truthful Color / ICC in the Movie Industry

The ICC model works not just for printed images; it also works well for film and video production. Animation films are increasingly produced with computers, but without color m anagement, obtaining the desired color on the film output is a somewhat dicey affair.
Before digital technology became a mainstay in the movie industry, color quality mainly depended on chemical and process control. As computers are used for both touch-up and special effects in live action films and for generating synthetic images for animation, the needs for video color management become very similar to those for the printing business. To complicate things further, film has a wider gamut t han either display monitors or ink on paper.
In response to this problem, Silicon Graphics is currently developing the Digital Animation DreamMachine for Steven Spielberg's new studio, DreamWorks SKG, which uses device-independent, ICC-based color management. This allows output to different types of film recorders.

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