Color grading is the process of shaping the final visual tone of a film or video. It helps define mood, improve consistency, and bring the image closer to the intended world of the piece.
At RIOT, color grading is not treated as a last-minute correction. It is a finishing discipline that can unify footage, heighten atmosphere, and give the final work more depth and polish.
The grade often determines how premium, cinematic, or emotionally coherent a piece feels. It is one of the clearest ways to move from rough assembly to finished work.
RIOT grades with restraint, taste, and a strong feel for the final image.
e.l.f. Mirror Mix: the launch film for e.l.f. Made's second album, seven artists and seven tracks on one Y2K desktop. Edit, motion design and animation by RIOT.
Explore the Project →RIOT designed and built AltSounds end to end: the brand, the product, the taste engine, the phone experience, the speed and the search. A full-bleed music video channel you can leave on all day, and the clearest picture of how we build web products.
Explore the Project →Coach took two stories to Cannes Lions 2026: &Coach, its new Gen Z platform of shared authorship, and a Palais talk on reading culture instead of chasing it. RIOT cut the panel recap and CMO Joon Silverstein's talk. The recap moves the way the platform does, between the room, where creators, athletes and strategists shared one backdrop, and the hand-written cards that give each &Coach story its rhythm. Nerves. Dreams. Us.
Explore the Project →Bogg had a beach day on film and a summer range photographed one piece at a time on white. RIOT turned 386 ecommerce stills into motion and cut it all into a :30 for connected TV, ending on our tagline: real life, worry free.
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