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Hi arrinkiii, I'm so sorry, I uninstalled Resolve two weeks ago! Basically the operation was done on two steps: for the first thing I balanced the shots to have a uniform look, then I added a series of nodes, following this simple tutorial:

https://vimeo.com/65617394

Things are well explained, but the look is quite complicated to achieve with poorly exposed frames (linke ours), so you must keep a very tight discipline with nodes in order to avoid a big mess. Underexposition bring us another sticky problem: qualifier didn't work properly (we get noisy or uncorrected selections almost in the 80% of the night shots), so I was forced to use A LOT of masks, tuned up even frame by frame with a lot of hours spent on that...

BTW, if you don't need to shot a movie over the rain, in the middle of the night with poor light power and little time to do it because you are in a f*kin missile base, following that tutorial will allow you to get the separation tone look you want! 

-Yes, please, if Mattia share the CC and grading trip would be awesome =)))

Thanks for this, appreciated a lot   

Hi arrinkiiii, I'm not very good with Resolve (I learned to hate it a little bit  ) How can I do it? Is it enough to share the main grade still? The CC has been a big challenge, I wasn't neither a colorist nor a Resolve user. One more thing to say is that the scenes were so dark and the qualifier tool didn't managed to separate skin tones, so I needed to do a big amount of cc masks; a real pita...

Was 'Le Chat Noir' the center of license issues? (3:47)

LOL! Unfortunately the problem was the whole Metal Gear Solid brand...

Yes, this is one of the most interesting technical questions about our short... As Erik said, the whole set were lighted by 2 big HMI lights that were the diegetic sources you can see on the hangar's walls. For every other set we used 3 LED offroad rooftop lights you can find in any car spare shop. I think that -with the weather issues we had- this have been the only way possible to achieve the result we hoped to get... Even high budget cameras and HMI lights could have been a limit to the prodution schedule. ML made it possible! 

Thank you very much microsoul and beauchampy! I'm Mattia Gri, DoP of MGSP and member of Hive Division.

MGSP2 preview short is the result of our efforts and should have been the presentation video for a crowdfunding campaign, that aimed to raise the minimum amount of money to make the whole 90 minutes movie. Unfortunately, some copyright issues stopped us few days ago just before the start... What you see here, was shot with no budget.

That said, we wanted to thank ML in the ending credits just because without that, this short woudn't have be possible to shoot. A 5Dmk3 with the first raw module available, bring us fantastic images even in very dark conditions! We had some weather annoys while on the set, so you can notice slightly color/contrast shifts that I didn't managed to fix even in post (CC and graded in DaVinci Resolve 10). Btw, the result made us so happy, thank you again ML community!