It was the second stereo 3D animated feature that Persichetti has graded on Baselight. He also graded Sony Pictures Animation’s 2009 animated feature Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the first film finished at Colorworks.
Animation, lighting, effects and stereography for Hotel Transylvania were completed by Sony Pictures Imageworks, which then delivered high-resolution image files to Colorworks via direct fiber link for color grading and stereo finishing.
The task for Persichetti – who worked in collaboration with director Genndy Tartakovsky, visual effects supervisor Daniel Kramer and 3D stereoscopic supervisor Von Williams – was to ensure scene-to-scene consistency and to finesse details that only became apparent when the film was projected onto a big screen in Colorworks’ DI theatre.
“The majority of our work involved fine adjustments, making a character appear lighter or darker relative to the background, or adjusting the color of a face,” Persichetti said.