About iColorist
iColorist is one of the most prominent and recognized organizations dedicated to teaching color in the post-production sector.
We train and support working colorists, editors, cinematographers, directors, DITs, VFX artists, restoration artists, audio engineers and DPs with staff positions at major facilities or busy freelancers working on a wide variety of television, commercial and feature film content.
Major post facilities and broadcasters contract with iColorist to train their people on best color correction practices and color science.
Our instructors are active professionals who work around the world. Together they have accumulated more than 200 years of experience that they are happy to share with their students. We’ve taught classes in 46 cities across 5 continents, but now also offer online and remote learning – in a variety of time zones and languages.
We teach classes at beginner, advanced and masterclass levels on color science, HDR, daVinci Resolve, monitor calibration, colorist strategies, digital makeup, looks, specific classes for work on commercials or feature films, and so much more.
History
iColorist, the International Colorist Academy or ICA, was founded by colorists Kevin Shaw and Warren Eagles who have over 50 years of grading experience between them. They can also boast over 30 years of training and demo experience. Kevin and Warren work with freelance colorists to pool their valuable experience in grading features, commercials, DI, music, and drama projects to create hands-on colorist training courses.
Training with iColorist
iColorist classes are typically small and personal, and all the instructors have years of experience to share. Books and videos are helpful resources but they can never replace firsthand knowledge and someone to answer your questions. We hold classes regularly in Los Angeles, New York, London, Sydney, Singapore, and other major cities around the world. We also conduct customized classes on-site for post facilities, manufacturers, and industry organizations.
iColorist provides a range of courses geared towards colorists and post-production facilities. All courses are delivered by independent colorists located around the world and range from basic color theory, digital intermediate, and film workflows, to telecine and lab grading, client interaction, and looks and styles.
iColorist courses cover a broad range of different manufacturers’ color grading systems and we offer many courses that are not system specific.
Instructors
The International Colorist Academy (iColorist or ICA) is a group of instructors pooling their knowledge and experience to continue elevating the art of color. Together, we have 200 years of grading experience – on the job and teaching others.
We deliver a range of training courses around the world, for colorists, post-production facilities, and everyone else who comes into contact with film and video. Our courses cover color theory, colorist and grading skills and techniques, and the technology of film and grading.
If you are an industry professional looking to upskill, you’ll find a class on everything from working with HDR, digital and film workflows, telecine and lab grading, client interaction, and looks and styles on our classes page. Our classes and workshops cover a broad range of manufacturer color grading systems and many courses are not system specific.
Warren Eagles, CSI is a freelance colorist based in Australia. He has an extensive 25 year career with experience in all forms of color correction. Starting out as a photographers’ assistant in London’s West End straight from school, he knew from an early age that he wanted to be involved in a visual industry. Moved to top Soho post house Visions in 1987 where he started as a Colorist working on a mixture of long and short form projects. Warren started the Telecine department at Todd AO in 1994 combining closely with their new film lab. He then moved to SVC for a new challenge, grading high end TV commercials on the DaVinci 888, having previously been a Pandora Pogle user. WarrenEagles.com.au
Guy Molin, CSI is a freelance colorist, based in the Netherlands. For the last ten years he has been one of the top color grading artists in the Netherlands. Before that, Guy was the one of the owners of a big Amsterdam-based post production facility specializing in 35mm telecine film scanning, color correction, and film recording. In addition to grading, Guy specializes in operating digital cameras. Guy has several multinationals as longtime repeat clients and works for practically all Dutch broadcasters. Guy’s IMDb page
Diego Yhama, CSI is a colorist, university professor, and trainer based in Colombia. He loves football and barbeque with a good beer. He started his career in the industry working in VFX and then he became an Autodesk trainer in the Creative Finishing department. He worked initially with Smoke, Flame, and later in the color grading part with Lustre. He was also a postproduction coordinator and colorist in different companies where he graded films, episodics, and documentaries. Diego is a DaVinci Resolve Master Trainer for South America and teaches color in nine countries, several universities, and postproduction companies, and works a demo artist at NAB. He is an instructor for LinkedIn learning, writes articles for Tvyvideo magazine, and works closely with Sony Latin America on video workflow demos. Diego’s IMDb page.
Kevin Shaw, CSI has been color grading for 30 years, lives in England, and works all over the world as a colorist, restoration specialist, technologist, consultant and instructor. Kevin is equally at home working on DI Feature productions, TV episodic programming and for three years headed up the BBC S&PP restoration team. Prior to the software revolution he was a renowned telecine colorist, and worked with every model of the hardware da Vinci color correction systems up to and including the 2kPlus with Toolbox. In those days he concentrated on high-end commercials. FinalColor.com
Maximus Raharjo is a resident colorist and trainer at Maxon based in Germany. He is also a certified DaVinci Resolve instructor. Together with Maxon, Max delivers training sessions and webinars to help creatives get up to speed in color grading. A former professional photographer with massive interest in filmmaking, he joined Maxon in 2017 to reach out to a wider audience. Max is on a mission to help creative talents build sustainable knowledge about color correction by demystifying complicated technical details into bite-size chunks and start having fun finding their unique signature style when color grading. Maximus’ IMDb page
Blake Jones, CSI is a world renowned colorist based in Germany. He has over 28 years of experience with all forms of color correction. He started in the industry as a tape operator and his skills were quickly recognized and he soon became a colorist in Hollywood. He started out first color grading films and eventually went on to color grade several major television shows and commercials. Blake then came to Holland where he worked as Senior Colorist and Technical Director of Condor Post Production in Amsterdam. He is a product developer, colorist instructor and engineer for Creative Tools/Videocation in Munich. He conducts ICA colorist training classes at their training center. Blake also remains active as a colorist and does colorist projects around the world. His credits include commercials for Heineken, Ford, Mastercard and Amstel. Blake’s IMDb page.
Gregg Loewen is a technical video consultant and video fidelity educator focused on measurable, standards-based imaging performance for post-production. He is the Founder of the Professional Video Alliance (PVA) and President of Lion Audio Video Consultants Inc. , For over 25 years, Gregg has helped DITs, colorists, and editors achieve reliable, repeatable image accuracy —supporting color grading and editorial suites, aligning monitoring with standards, and building calibration and evaluation methods that fit real-world post-production workflows. His work emphasizes correct measurement, consistent results across displays, and clear communication between creative intent and technical performance. Follow Gregg on LinkedIn.
Jeff Greenberg has over two decades of experience as a post-production consultant and master instructor (trainer for other trainers) for Adobe, Apple, Avid, and Blackmagic Design. He specializes in editorial, workflow, compositing, sound, color grading, and compression. Jeff owns J Greenberg Consulting and for ten years was the Principal Instructor for Future Media Concepts. He is consistently voted as one of the top seminar speakers/interviewers in the industry. Audience feedback highlights the depth he is able to cover, his approachability, and his student-centered teaching techniques that help people keep up-to-date on industry standards. Jeff teaches seminars at events such as NAB, IBC, CES, and InterBEE, and is the chair for the Editors Retreat, an annually held exclusive getaway for editors. JGreenbergConsulting.com
Toni Gozum, CSI is enthused for a world full of color and pours her colouring passion to both still and moving pictures. She is an independent colorist who works with notable post and production houses in the Philippines. She also offers her services internationally as a fully equipped remote colorist. Toni entered the coloring scene fresh off university during a time when film and digital struggled to be the status quo, and formal training as a colorist was limited. This led her to more than a decade-long path of learning and training on the job. Nonetheless, she had the opportunity to receive intensive training and certification as a trainer for Blackmagic Design — specifically for DaVinci Resolve. She has also received an Award of Merit for Color Treatment from the Cinema World Fest Award for her work in the film, “Quezon’s Game”. Watch a video about Toni’s classes here. Toni’s IMDb page.
Paul Hanrahan, CSI is an experienced senior colorist who has worked in South Africa from 1994 till 2009 and in Taiwan from 2009 till the present. He has color graded a wide range of work including: commercials, features, documentaries, TV series, short films, and music videos. He is Dolby Vision-certified. He graduated with a BSc in Electrical Engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in 1994. He is an engineer by training but an artist at heart and love combining art and technology to tell stories through film and other visual media. In 2009 he relocated to Taiwan and took a senior colorist role at post facility, Digimax Inc. In 2019 he received Taiwan citizenship through their policy of welcoming foreigners with special talents in the fields of art and technology. Paul teaches in English and Mandarin Chinese. PaulHanrahan.com
Nikolai Waldman, CSI has been color grading for 25 years and is based in Sweden. For the past decade, he was co-owner and lead colorist at CAN Film, a post-production facility specializing in feature films and high-end drama series. Now working as a freelancer again, Nikolai not only grades films and series but also develops custom software solutions for the film industry, consults on technical workflows, and teaches post-production. Nikolai teaches classes in English and in Swedish. See a schedule of Nikolai’s upcoming classes. He began his career in 1994 as an editor and gradually transitioned through VFX and online editing into color grading. His portfolio includes commercial clients like Volvo Cars and IKEA, as well as international films such as Godland (Iceland, premiered at Cannes), Hammarskjöld (Sweden), Unicorns (UK), Hidden Identity (Italy), Neon Flesh (Spain), and many more. WaldmanMedia.com