






Digital Intermediate Colorist & Finishing Artist
Tashi Trieu
"Film is my canvas and color is my brush."
View Work →Avatar: Fire and Ash
Projects
Captured during her sold-out world tour, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft brings an innovative new concert experience to the big screen in immersive 3D.
The explosive sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water expanded the film’s theatrical release to include HDR by Barco and Cinty direct-view LED systems.
Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella. Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography. Tashi and MOSAIC were tasked with supporting the completion and distribution mastering of the film.
The origin story of your friendly neighborhood comic book store.
Doug, a troubled Florida man struggling with addiction and personal setbacks, discovers an injured mermaid and takes her home to nurse her back to health. As rumors about the creature spread, he becomes increasingly determined to protect her from those seeking to exploit or harm her.
Thirteen years after the original film’s release, Avatar: The Way of Water is a generational leap forward in photorealistic digital filmmaking. Russell Carpenter, ASC, and the teams at WetaFX under Eric Saindon and Joe Letteri crafted an incredible visual spectacle.
Tashi explored the rich canvas of Pandora’s underwater world in Dolby Cinema and IMAX, using the latest state-of-the-art tools to deliver a spectacular experience in 3D, HDR, HFR, and 4K.
A gripping documentary explores the shadowy world of exotic reptile smuggling, following two rival kingpins whose lucrative global operation supplied rare species to US zoos until betrayal sparked a devastating vendetta.
A Honduran immigrant is given the chance to meet her mother after nearly two decades of separation.
Sharon Lockhart’s newest film Windward is a work composed of twelve square static shots depicting children interacting with the natural beauty on Fogo Island off of Newfoundland’s northeastern coast. The film unveils the island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty, brought to life through portrayals of youth. On exhibition in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Tashi served as colorist along with supervising colorist Skip Kimball.
Tashi was the colorist for DC’s Titans Season 2. Titans is available in Dolby Vision HDR for streaming domestically on Max and internationally on Netflix.
Tashi served as the digital intermediate editor and in-house visual effects artist at Technicolor Hollywood, crafting more than 450 4K visual effects shots over the first season — handling cosmetic work, intricate 3D removals, and continuity refinements. His contributions helped establish the show as part of Netflix’s emerging 4K Ultra High-Definition content lineup.
Season 2 of Sense8 brought new challenges and an evolving workflow. Tashi worked as a digital intermediate editor, visual effects artist, and additional colorist, working under the supervision of Technicolor Hollywood’s Tony Dustin.
Tashi managed editorial and color grading collaboration throughout the show providing a camera RAW, feature-style grading pipeline that allowed the Technicolor team and the show’s cinematographer John Toll (Cloud Atlas, Braveheart, The Thin Red Line) even more creative control and flexibility.
Tashi completed over 1,000 4K visual effects shots over the course of the 11-episode season, ranging from cosmetic/aesthetic fulfillment to complex removals and screen replacements.
A witty, dialogue-driven romantic comedy that subverts genre expectations. The grade supports the film’s bright, slightly heightened Los Angeles reality — clean and contemporary without losing warmth.
Tashi collaborated with cinematographer Greg Cotten to produce a unique analog film look for Straight Up.
Tashi reunited with college friends Matt and Ross Duffer to bring Stranger Things to the finish line.
Tashi worked as a digital intermediate editor, visual effects artist, and additional colorist, working under the supervision of veteran senior colorist Skip Kimball (Avatar, Logan).
Now a mainstay of modern post-production, Stranger Things 1 in 2016 was one of the first studio productions to execute an end-to-end finishing workflow using DaVinci Resolve, conforming live from 6K camera RAW material for maximum creative flexibility.
Tashi served as an additional colorist on Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok, providing the final color grading for the home video release of the film. Tashi worked under the supervision of veteran colorist Steven J. Scott (The Revenant, Birdman, Gravity).
Thor: Ragnarok contained just under 2,700 visual effects shots, guided by VFX supervisor, Jake Morrison (The Avengers, Speed Racer, 300), who supervised the final grade. Utilizing an ACES OpenEXR pipeline within Autodesk Lustre and Flame, color grading became an imperceptible extension of visual effects, providing the utmost in creative interactivity.
Tashi provided color grading for preview screenings and collaborative visual effects review sessions for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, working with Director JJ Abrams and BAFTA winning and Academy Nominated Visual Effects Supervisor Roger Guyett (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Star Trek) at Bad Robot.
Tashi was also a Mistika finishing editor handling multiple aspects of digital intermediate editorial, visual effects reviews, and digital post-production pipeline development.
An orphaned teenager forms an unlikely friendship with a detective. Together they investigate her mother’s murder, and uncover the supernatural force that proves to be a threat to her family.
A dramedy about a well-intentioned father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the life of his estranged daughter when she invites him to her woodland wedding. The grade leans into natural light and a restrained color palette to ground the film’s emotional honesty.
A troubled Off-World Officer, running from his past, finds himself face to face with it when he boards the mysterious spaceship Atropa. A love-letter to the grungy science fiction movies of the 70s and 80s, the seven-episode digital series Atropa features a twisting sci-fi plot and dazzling visual effects.
Visual effects supervised by Ryan Wieber.
Disney’s The Jungle Book presented ambitious technical and artistic challenges and has claimed its place as one of the most elegant and visual films of recent years.
Tashi worked as an Additional Colorist supporting the theatrical finishing of The Jungle Book working directly with director Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Chef, Cowboys & Aliens), visual effects supervisor Robert Legato (Titanic, Avatar, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street) and senior colorist Mike Sowa (Oblivion, Need for Speed). Tashi was also the home video mastering colorist for both the 2D and 3D versions of the film.
Action/sci-fi series created for YouTube, executive produced by Justin Lin.
An Iranian-American widower returns to Iran to take a second wife, seen through the eyes of the woman he is arranged to marry. Color grading and digital cinema packaging for the film’s festival run.
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Tashi Trieu is a visual finishing artist and colorist with over fifteen years of post-production experience across feature films, episodic television, commercials, and short-form content. His credits span some of the most technically ambitious productions in cinema — from Star Wars: The Force Awakens to James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water — with a commitment to serving each project's distinct visual language.
With a deep background in compositing, digital photography, and film photography, Tashi brings a nuanced understanding of image-making to every grade. He holds extensive technical knowledge in color science, image processing, and the end-to-end digital post-production workflow.
Tashi is a co-founder of MOSAIC Post Production, an artist-driven picture finishing boutique in Burbank, CA.
Tashi is a co-author of Modern Post: Workflows and Techniques for Digital Filmmakers and contributed the Digital Intermediates chapter to the third edition of the VES Handbook — the industry's definitive reference on visual effects. He has contributed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' ACES color standards project and consults for color science applications and major software vendors.
As an educator, he has taught digital intermediate color grading at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film & Media Arts and Taipei National University of the Arts, and provided post-production consulting to major studios and facilities in Taiwan.
Modern Post: Workflows and Techniques for Digital Filmmakers
Digital Intermediates and Visual Effects for Independent Film Production - A Production Handbook
VES Handbook, Fourth Edition — Digital Intermediates Chapter
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