Kevin Shaw, CSI

Kevin Shaw C.S.I. has nearly 40 years of experience colorgrading features, HETV,commercials and music videos. He is President of the Colorist Society, co-founder of theInternational colorist academy, and was the first Director of Training at davinci. He has 30years experience teaching colorists, He has worked in over 45 countries and has taught atNFTS, DFF, AFTRS, Talinn, Serbia as well as for BBC, Sky, CBS, Dolby, Amazon and Netflix.

Kevin currently works as Head of colour at Mission, where he oversees color managedpipelines, grades and lectures. In the past he has worked at BBC Digital Media Services as Lead technologist and head of restoration. Kevin is a strong advocate of ACES and HDR.

Kevin's colorist career started in 1985 in London at Telecine Ltd, where he quickly gained a reputation for his creativity working on music videos. He moved to SVC and then Rushes where he designed his own telecine suite and expanded his commercials work. In 1992 he moved to Milan, Italy to open a new grading facility for the Interactive Group, and a year later he moved to Zurich, Switzerland as Head of Telecine at Online Video. Kevin’s activities as both colorist and instructor led him to go freelance in 1995.

In the early 1990s da Vinci began using Kevin as their preferred instructor, and he ran their training program on a freelance basis. In 1998 the training became a full time task and Kevin joined da Vinci Systems in Florida, full time, to open the da Vinci Academy. He ran the da Vinci Academy and contributed to product design until 2004. By 2004 Kevin felt the need to get back in the colorist chair and work with clients again, so he left the company and turned freelance. He immediately focused on software grading and DI workflows. In 2009, he co-founded the International Colorist Academy (ICA) to share his knowledge and experiences with the growing new generation of software colorists. In 2012 Kevin took a lead role in building a new facility for the BBC to do digitisation, compliance editing and restoration. Kevin is currently President of Colorist Society (CSI), which is the first organisation to represent professional colorists.