BERKELEY, CA — Full-service post house Colorflow (www.colorflow.com), which specializes in color grading, has hired Kent Pritchett as lead colorist. Pritchett brings close to 20 years of experience in color grading and a list of credits that spans major motion pictures, independent films, animation and episodic television.
Pritchett had been working as a freelance colorist and completed several projects through Colorflow, including Heatstroke and Born This Way. Other recent credits include Paperman for Disney Feature Animation, a current Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short.
Pritchett has practiced his craft at studios and post facilities worldwide, including Walt Disney Animation Studios, Industrial Light & Magic and Encore Hollywood. He performed final grading for Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith along with the remastering of the Star Wars Trilogy and Beauty and the Beast. In 2011, he served as a color consultant with Colorfront’s On-Set-Dailies system on feature films for Deluxe, Technicolor and Disney. Equally comfortable in the commercial grading chair, he recently finished campaigns for Toyota and Salesforce.
His career includes five years as an application specialist for Autodesk, where he focused on the grading and finishing systems Lustre, Smoke and Flame.