Matthew Schwab

About Matthew Schwab

My narrative and episodic work as a digital colorist can be seen on DisneyPlus, Showtime, Netflix, Amazon, Fox Sports, and includes Sundance and Venice International film festivals. I have over ten years of experience working on broadcast commercial and branded content including Super Bowl and award-winning international campaigns. A short list of agencies and production houses that I have the pleasure of working with include Wieden & Kennedy, RSA, MAL, 72andSunny, Sweetshop, Droga5, Publicis, Deutsch, BBDO, BBH, RPA, CarbonVFX, The Martin Agency, Moxie Pictures, and McGarry Bowen. A short list of brands I have worked on includes Apple, Google, BMW, Nike, American Express, Instagram, Pepsi, Toyota, Newcastle, Acura, Microsoft, Droid, Porsche, Bank of America, NBA, Elle, Smartwater, Smirnoff, and MTV. In addition to being a colorist, I have been tasked to edit, online edit, VFX and conform on Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Davinci Resolve, Fusion, and photography in studio and on location.I am influenced by my lifelong passion for fine art oil painting and mixed media. My exploration of color, shape, and value with my art helps me to provide a more creative and collaborative experience for my clients. Recent digital colorist work can be seen at Non-fiction 2023AICP Color Grading 2021GRAMMY Award Winning 2021

Experience

1. Colorist

   Sony Interactive Entertainment

   Aug 2016 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Colorist for marketing commercials and public event content, interactive content, and on the feature documentary \"Raising Kratos\".\"Raising Kratos documents the five-year, herculean effort to reinvent one of the greatest stories in gaming, God of War.\"

Education

• Pratt Institute

  Fine Art Painting and Drawing

• University of Oxford

  Shakespeare and Elizabethan History Seminar

• International Center of Photography

  Color processing techniques

  1999 — 1999

• Cinesys

  Autodesk Lustre

• The Glasgow School of Art

  Film and Art History Intensive

  2001 — 2002

• University of Hartford

  Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Photography, Color and Black & White Processing, Painting, Design, Visual Communications

  1998 — 2001

Skills

• Short Films
• Colorist
• Film
• Video Production
• Web Video
• Final Cut Studio
• Shooting
• Avid
• Online Editing
• Production
• Avid Symphony
• Photography
• Cinematography
• Film Editing
• Episodic Documentary Series
• Digital Media
• Davinci Resolve
• Post Production
• Color Grading
• Di Colorist
• Baselight
• Editing
• Documentaries
• Film Production
• Final Cut Pro
• Photo Editor
• Freelance Colorist
• Avid Editor
• Mac
• Color Correction
• Avid Media Composer
• After Effects
• Photoshop
• Video Post-Production
• Television
• Digital Photography
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Compositing
• Advertising
• Video