teal & orange.xls

Sludge: the new teal & orange. I don't watch enough TV (he lied) to spot the trend but I noticed how desaturated The Tourist was before I saw this article.

https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge

not specifically about colour palette, but inspired by this tweet:

I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances. I don't know if it's laziness or cost cutting but so many shots look so much worse now than in the nineties. Look at these shots from DEATH ON THE NILE. It looks like it was shot at a local tv station's weather map set. pic.twitter.com/eDt10FieyM

— Greg Fantomas F. (@FantomasCinema) April 4, 2022

What is this thing where movies are (intentionally?) made to look like video game cut scenes? Is this just really cheap green-screening or is it that younger people who grew up watching video game cut-scenes actually like this look? (it's probably both I guess)

It occurred to me how long it's been since I had occasion to complain about teal and orange. Everything is only getting grey-er. I'm indulging a childlike, total layman's impression that there was like one guy responsible for the teal & orange boom who was promoted or moved on, and now there's a guy who likes everything murky and "realistic" in his place.

are you thinking of andor?

No, I'm thinking of every movie and show so desaturated you can't tell what's going on. My wife just tried watching House of the Dragon in the daytime and it was a hopeless cause.

https://shopteaandoranges.com/products/folk-scarf-pink?_pos=10&_sid=4c5f20209&_ss=r

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/10/21/passenger1_custom-1c970af4ceec51cf991517a2c1b79ac8989eecfd-s1100-c50.jpg

Now I'm thinking of this game where you had to put like littel walls up for somreason - I think hte board was teal and the walls orange ...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2028/5101/products/dan-marino-miami-dolphins-1997-florida-poster-starline_large.jpg?v=1593051242

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/02/travel/los-angeles-arcades.html

Teal & orange's second coming

Now that the DALL-E has been successfully midjourneyfied, it is becoming apparent that instead of simulating all possible ›styles‹, AI is fostering the emergence of a distinct visual style, born out of popular aesthetic preferences dominating platforms like DeviantArt
1/6 pic.twitter.com/tZd9Hrz27s

— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen) March 7, 2023

PPS: Thanks to @saintsoftness just learned that there already is a name for this color scheme, »Teal and Orange«, a popular look in color grading and achieved by »push[ing] blues or teals into the shadows and oranges or yellows into the highlights« https://t.co/GHgJ1SIcgb

— Roland Meyer (@bildoperationen) March 7, 2023

Just saying: there exists a YouTube channel based around a conspiracy theory about how the Teal & Orange colour grading trend is actually due to a Mandela Effect-type mysterious phenomenon that turned all the world's media teal. pic.twitter.com/Dq1cemmgBz

— Devan Scott (@SadHillDevan) July 15, 2023

The Mandela Effect subreddit is on it

https://i.imgur.com/Fchhk3e.png