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| A '''colourist''' (more often called a '''color grader''' or '''grader''' in the [[United States]]) is a post-production artist that provides one of the final steps in completing an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Because [[principal photography]] occurs during a variety of lighting circumstances, individual scenes can have obviously different tonalities. It's the job of the colourist to achieve a colour balance, or "match", across all the scenes. The colourist will usually work closely with the [[director]] to achieve a particular colour "palate" for an episode. Some episodes will tend to hue towards warm reds and yellows, while others will require a darker blue or green palate. The choice of palate greatly affects the overall mood of the story.
| | "'''Colourist'''" is a title which refers to two distinct positions — one for television work and one for comic strips. |
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| It is well documented in ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' and various episodic [[commentary|commentaries]] that [[producer]] [[Phil Collinson]] asked his grader to generally push up the reds and yellows so that ''Doctor Who'' would appear bright and inviting to a viewer flipping through channels on her television set. Nevertheless, certain episodes produced by Collinson, notably ''[[Tooth and Claw]]'' have an obviously darker tonality. Judging from the [[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|2010 series]] preview aired on [[1st January]] [[2010]], it would appear that the first [[Matt Smith]] series may well be moving to a more muted color palate. | | == On television == |
| | {{section stub|Further information about colourists' work Series 5 onwards needed}} |
| | In regards to televised work, a colourist (more often called a colour grader or grader in the [[United States]]) is a post-production artist who provides one of the final steps in completing an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Because [[principal photography]] occurs in a variety of lighting circumstances, individual scenes can have obviously different tonalities. It's the job of the colourist to achieve a colour balance, or "match", across all the scenes, and to regrade footage to serve narrative and tone. The colourist will usually work closely with the [[Director (crew)|director]] to achieve a particular colour "palette" for an episode. Some episodes will tend to hue towards warm reds and yellows, while others will require a colder blue or green palate. The choice of palette greatly affects the overall mood of the story. |
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| | It is well documented in ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' and various episodic commentaries that [[producer]] [[Phil Collinson]] asked his grader to generally push up the reds and yellows so that ''Doctor Who'' would appear bright and inviting to a viewer flipping through channels on the television set. Nevertheless, certain episodes produced by Collinson, notably ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'', have an obviously darker tonality. |
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| | Contrastively, in several episodes directed by [[Rachel Talalay]], outdoor footage had warmer tones filtered out, producing a starker and darker image in many scenes. |
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| | Colourists were not commonplace or credited on the 1963 version of ''Doctor Who''. In fact, the practice of recording on film whilst on location, and video whilst in studio, made full colour grading impossible. However, each episode of the [[BBC Wales]] version makes extensive use of colour grading and an artist has been credited for every episode since ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]''. |
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| | The process was featured in the ''Doctor Who Confidential'' episode ''[[After Effects (CON episode)|After Effects]]'', when ''Confidential'' interviewed [[Mick Vincent]], the principal colourist for ''Doctor Who'' until 2014. |
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| | == With comic strips == |
| | When discussing comic strips, a colourist (more often colorist, due to the predominance of Americans in the industry) is the person who adds colour to images that have been [[penciller|pencilled]] and [[inker|inked]], usually by other artists. Though traditionally done with physical media, colouring is now mostly done digitally. Modern approaches narrow the gap between what a film colourist and a comic colourist do. Additionally, modern tools give the comic colourist a power with lighting panels that is not unlike that of a [[cinematographer]]. If the penciller and inker are mostly in charge of depicting what happens in each panel, the modern colourist creates the mood, not by simply adding colour, but also by adding textures, layers and lighting effects. |
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| Colourists were not commonplace or credited on the [[1963]] version of ''Doctor Who''. In fact, the practice of recording on film whilst on location, and video whilst in studio made full color grading impossible. However, each episode of the [[BBC Wales]] version makes extensive use of color grading, and an artist has been credited for every episode since [[Rose (TV story)|''Rose'']].
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"Colourist" is a title which refers to two distinct positions — one for television work and one for comic strips.
This section's awfully
stubby.
Further information about colourists' work Series 5 onwards needed
In regards to televised work, a colourist (more often called a colour grader or grader in the United States) is a post-production artist who provides one of the final steps in completing an episode of Doctor Who. Because principal photography occurs in a variety of lighting circumstances, individual scenes can have obviously different tonalities. It's the job of the colourist to achieve a colour balance, or "match", across all the scenes, and to regrade footage to serve narrative and tone. The colourist will usually work closely with the director to achieve a particular colour "palette" for an episode. Some episodes will tend to hue towards warm reds and yellows, while others will require a colder blue or green palate. The choice of palette greatly affects the overall mood of the story.
It is well documented in Doctor Who Confidential and various episodic commentaries that producer Phil Collinson asked his grader to generally push up the reds and yellows so that Doctor Who would appear bright and inviting to a viewer flipping through channels on the television set. Nevertheless, certain episodes produced by Collinson, notably Tooth and Claw, have an obviously darker tonality.
Contrastively, in several episodes directed by Rachel Talalay, outdoor footage had warmer tones filtered out, producing a starker and darker image in many scenes.
Colourists were not commonplace or credited on the 1963 version of Doctor Who. In fact, the practice of recording on film whilst on location, and video whilst in studio, made full colour grading impossible. However, each episode of the BBC Wales version makes extensive use of colour grading and an artist has been credited for every episode since Rose.
The process was featured in the Doctor Who Confidential episode After Effects, when Confidential interviewed Mick Vincent, the principal colourist for Doctor Who until 2014.
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Colourist
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42 |
Mick Vincent
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73 Yards |
Gareth Spensley
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Adam |
Mick Vincent
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Adrift |
Mick Vincent
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An Adventure in Space and Time |
Asa Shoul
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Aliens of London |
Kai van Beers
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The Almost People |
Mick Vincent
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Amy's Choice |
Jon Everett
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The Angels Take Manhattan |
Mick Vincent
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Arachnids in the UK |
Gareth Spensley
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Army of Ghosts |
Mick Vincent
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Asylum of the Daleks |
Mick Vincent
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Bad Wolf |
Paul Harrison
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The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos |
Gareth Spensley
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The Beast Below |
Mick Vincent
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Before the Flood |
Gareth Spensley
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The Bells of Saint John |
Mick Vincent
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The Big Bang |
Mick Vincent
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Blink |
Mick Vincent
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Boom |
Gareth Spensley
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Boom Town |
Paul Harrison
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Brave-ish Heart |
Chris Rodgers
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Can You Hear Me? |
Jateen Patel
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Captain Jack Harkness |
Mick Vincent
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The Caretaker |
Gareth Spensley
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Children of Earth: Day Five |
Jon Everett
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Children of Earth: Day Four |
Jon Everett
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Children of Earth: Day One |
Jon Everett
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Children of Earth: Day Three |
Jon Everett
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Children of Earth: Day Two |
Jon Everett
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A Christmas Carol |
Mick Vincent
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The Christmas Invasion |
Mick Vincent
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The Church on Ruby Road |
Gareth Spensley
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Closing Time |
Gareth Spensley
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Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart |
Chris Rodgers
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The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo |
Chris Rodgers
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Cold Blood |
Mick Vincent
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Cold War |
Mick Vincent
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Combat |
Mick Vincent
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Countrycide |
Mick Vincent
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The Crimson Horror |
Mick Vincent
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The Curse of Clyde Langer |
Jon Everett
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The Curse of the Black Spot |
Mick Vincent
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Cyberwoman |
Mick Vincent
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Dalek |
Kai van Beers
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Daleks in Manhattan |
Mick Vincent
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Dark Water |
Gareth Spensley
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Day One |
James Bamford
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A Day in the Death |
Mick Vincent
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The Day of the Clown |
Jon Everett
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The Day of the Doctor |
Mick Vincent
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Day of the Moon |
Mick Vincent
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Dead Man Walking |
Mick Vincent
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Death in Heaven |
Gareth Spensley
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Death of the Doctor |
Jon Everett
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Deep Breath |
Gareth Spensley
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Demons of the Punjab |
Gareth Spensley
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Detained |
Chris Rodgers
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The Devil's Chord |
Gareth Spensley
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Dinosaurs on a Spaceship |
Mick Vincent
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The Doctor Dances |
Jamie Wilkinson
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The Doctor Falls |
Gareth Spensley
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The Doctor's Daughter |
Mick Vincent
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The Doctor's Wife |
Mick Vincent
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The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe |
Mick Vincent
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Doomsday |
Mick Vincent
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Dot and Bubble |
Gareth Spensley
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Earthshock (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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The Eaters of Light |
Gareth Spensley
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Empire of Death |
Gareth Spensley
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Empress of Mars |
Chris Rogers
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The Empty Child |
Jamie Wilkinson
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The Empty Planet |
Jon Everett
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End of Days |
Mick Vincent
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The End of Time |
Mick Vincent
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The End of the World |
Kai van Beers
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Enemy of the Bane |
Mick Vincent
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The Eternity Trap |
Jon Everett
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Eve of the Daleks |
Gareth Spensley
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Everything Changes |
Jamie Wilkinson
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Evolution of the Daleks |
Mick Vincent
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Extremis |
Gareth Spensley
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Eye of the Gorgon |
Jon Everett
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Face the Raven |
Gareth Spensley
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The Family of Blood |
Mick Vincent
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Father's Day |
Kai van Beers
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Fear Her |
Mick Vincent
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The Fires of Pompeii |
Mick Vincent
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Flatline |
Gareth Spensley
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Flesh and Stone |
Mick Vincent
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For Tonight We Might Die |
Chris Rodgers
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Forest of the Dead |
Mick Vincent
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Fragments |
Mick Vincent
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From Out of the Rain |
Mick Vincent
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Fugitive of the Judoon |
Jateen Patel
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Ghost Machine |
Mick Vincent
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The Ghost Monument |
Gareth Spensley
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The Gift |
Jon Everett
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The Giggle |
Gareth Spensley
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The Girl Who Died |
Gareth Spensley
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The Girl Who Waited |
Mick Vincent
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The Girl in the Fireplace |
Mick Vincent
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The God Complex |
Gareth Spensley
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A Good Man Goes to War |
Mick Vincent
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Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith |
Jon Everett
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Greeks Bearing Gifts |
Mick Vincent
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Gridlock |
Mick Vincent
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The Halloween Apocalypse |
Gareth Spensley
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Heaven Sent |
Gareth Spensley
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Hell Bent |
Gareth Spensley
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Hide |
Mick Vincent
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Human Nature |
Mick Vincent
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The Hungry Earth |
Mick Vincent
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The Husbands of River Song |
Gareth Spensley
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The Idiot's Lantern |
Mick Vincent
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The Impossible Astronaut |
Mick Vincent
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The Impossible Planet |
Mick Vincent
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In the Forest of the Night |
Gareth Spensley
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Into the Dalek |
Gareth Spensley
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Invasion of the Bane |
James Bamford
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It Takes You Away |
Gareth Spensley
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Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS |
Mick Vincent
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Journey's End |
Mick Vincent
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Kerblam! |
Gareth Spensley
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Kill the Moon |
Gareth Spensley
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang |
Mick Vincent
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Knock Knock |
Gareth Spensley
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Last Christmas |
Gareth Spensley
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The Last Sontaran |
Jon Everett
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Last of the Time Lords |
Mick Vincent
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The Lazarus Experiment |
Mick Vincent
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The Legend of Ruby Sunday |
Gareth Spensley
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Legend of the Sea Devils |
Gareth Spensley
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Let's Kill Hitler |
Mick Vincent
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The Lie of the Land |
Chris Rogers
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Listen |
Gareth Spensley
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The Lodger |
Jon Everett
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The Long Game |
Kai van Beers
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The Lost |
Chris Rodgers
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The Lost Boy |
Jon Everett
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Lost in Time |
Jon Everett
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Love & Monsters |
Mick Vincent
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The Mad Woman in the Attic |
Jon Everett
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The Magician's Apprentice |
Gareth Spensley
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The Man Who Never Was |
Jon Everett
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The Mark of the Berserker |
Jon Everett
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Meat |
Mick Vincent
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The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did |
Chris Rodgers
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Midnight |
Mick Vincent
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The Mind Robber (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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Mona Lisa's Revenge |
Jon Everett
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Mummy on the Orient Express |
Gareth Spensley
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The Name of the Doctor |
Gareth Spensley
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New Earth |
Mick Vincent
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The Next Doctor |
Mick Vincent
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Night Terrors |
Mick Vincent
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The Nightmare Man |
Jon Everett
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Nightmare in Silver |
Gareth Spensley
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Nightvisiting |
Chris Rodgers
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Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror |
Gareth Spensley
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Once, Upon Time |
Gareth Spensley
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Orphan 55 |
Gareth Spensley
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Out of Time |
Mick Vincent
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Oxygen |
Gareth Spensley
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The Pandorica Opens |
Mick Vincent
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The Parting of the Ways |
Paul Harrison
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Partners in Crime |
Mick Vincent
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The Pilot |
Gareth Spensley
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Planet of the Dead |
Mick Vincent
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Planet of the Ood |
Mick Vincent
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The Poison Sky |
Mick Vincent
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The Power of Three |
Gareth Spensley
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The Power of the Doctor |
Gareth Spensley
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Praxeus |
Gareth Spensley
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Prisoner of the Judoon |
Jon Everett
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The Pyramid at the End of the World |
Gareth Spensley
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Random Shoes |
Mick Vincent
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The Rebel Flesh |
Mick Vincent
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Reset |
Mick Vincent
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Resolution |
Gareth Spensley
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The Return of Doctor Mysterio |
Gareth Spensley
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Revenge of the Slitheen |
Jon Everett
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Revolution of the Daleks |
Gareth Spensley
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The Rings of Akhaten |
Mick Vincent
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Robot of Sherwood |
Gareth Spensley
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Rogue |
Gareth Spensley
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Rosa |
Gareth Spensley
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Rose |
Kai van Beers
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The Runaway Bride |
Mick Vincent
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The Satan Pit |
Mick Vincent
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School Reunion |
Mick Vincent
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Secrets of the Stars |
Jon Everett
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Silence in the Library |
Mick Vincent
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Sky |
Jon Everett
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Sleep No More |
Gareth Spensley
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Small Worlds |
Mick Vincent
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Smile |
Gareth Spensley
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Smith and Jones |
Mick Vincent
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The Snowmen |
Mick Vincent
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Something Borrowed |
Mick Vincent
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The Sontaran Stratagem |
Mick Vincent
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The Sound of Drums |
Mick Vincent
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Space Babies |
Gareth Spensley
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Spyfall |
Gareth Spensley
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The Star Beast |
Gareth Spensley
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The Stolen Earth |
Mick Vincent
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Survivors of the Flux |
Gareth Spensley
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The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith |
Jon Everett
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The Curse of Fenric (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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The Time of the Doctor |
Gareth Spensley
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They Keep Killing Suzie |
Mick Vincent
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Thin Ice |
Gareth Spensley
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The Three Doctors (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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Time Heist |
Gareth Spensley
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The Time Meddler (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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The Time of Angels |
Mick Vincent
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The Timeless Children |
Gareth Spensley
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To the Last Man |
Mick Vincent
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Tooth and Claw |
Mick Vincent
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A Town Called Mercy |
Gareth Spensley
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The Tsuranga Conundrum |
Gareth Spensley
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Turn Left |
Mick Vincent
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Twice Upon a Time |
Gareth Spensley
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Under the Lake |
Gareth Spensley
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The Unicorn and the Wasp |
Mick Vincent
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The Unquiet Dead |
Kai van Beers
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Utopia |
Mick Vincent
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The Vampires of Venice |
Mick Vincent
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The Vanquishers |
Gareth Spensley
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The Vault of Secrets |
Jon Everett
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Vengeance on Varos (TotT |
Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly
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Victory of the Daleks |
Mick Vincent
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Village of the Angels |
Christine Kelly
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Vincent and the Doctor |
Mick Vincent
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Voyage of the Damned |
Mick Vincent
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War of the Sontarans |
Gareth Spensley
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Warriors of Kudlak |
Jon Everett
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The Waters of Mars |
Mick Vincent
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The Wedding of River Song |
Mick Vincent
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The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith |
Jon Everett
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Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? |
Jon Everett
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Wild Blue Yonder |
Gareth Spensley
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The Witch's Familiar |
Gareth Spensley
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The Witchfinders |
Gareth Spensley
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The Woman Who Fell to Earth |
Gareth Spensley
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World War Three |
Kai van Beers
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The Zygon Invasion |
Gareth Spensley
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The Zygon Inversion |
Gareth Spensley
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When discussing comic strips, a colourist (more often colorist, due to the predominance of Americans in the industry) is the person who adds colour to images that have been pencilled and inked, usually by other artists. Though traditionally done with physical media, colouring is now mostly done digitally. Modern approaches narrow the gap between what a film colourist and a comic colourist do. Additionally, modern tools give the comic colourist a power with lighting panels that is not unlike that of a cinematographer. If the penciller and inker are mostly in charge of depicting what happens in each panel, the modern colourist creates the mood, not by simply adding colour, but also by adding textures, layers and lighting effects.