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Re:The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Ol... by jimmywanger on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @02:47AM (#13539117)
You do that by holding swatches of known colors and calibrating that way.

If you have say mixed race models or models of a race you're not familiar with, it would be worse than useless. Somebody with east asian features but western european skin tone would throw off an entire movie.

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Re:The Forgotten 'China Girls' Hidden at the Beginning of Ol... by irb on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @04:21AM (#13539467)
Yes, but it's not as though western Europeans all have exactly the same skin tone either - you can still make the wrong assumption. I think the idea would be to have multiple people with different skin tones so that you can check that they all look ok.
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