Space-Age workflows. Sky-high security. Sci-fi creativity.

SKYLAB occupies the highest orbit of film finishing. We’re obsessed with creative and technical excellence - and above all, unforgettable audience experiences - for every film that moves through our galaxy.

SKYLAB offers your production a new height of creative control, leading to the best possible final product. Through powerful workflows, constantly advancing technical expertise, and best-in-class production viewing environments, we can help your production achieve a level of efficiency you’ve likely never dreamed of.

The key is integration across time and space. We get involved at the beginning of your production process, designing a custom, integrated workflow that melds dailies, VFX, editorial and DI into connected streams of unified color-data - contained in the highest quality EXR format, and executed entirely in the widest-gamut ACES color space - at every stage.

Creative color decisions at the grading stage are absolutely crucial to the final look and feel of your movie. But a typical DI process often forces you to make rushed color decisions, compressed and frantic near the end of a hectic delivery schedule.

Color is critical. Decisions around it should be able to percolate and evolve just like every other creative stage in post, like editing, or sound design or mixing. And with SKYLAB, it can.

SKYLAB, Where Finishing Starts at the Beginning.

 

Our Services:

  • Creative Color Grading on Baselight™
  • Look Development & Camera Testing
  • LUT Creation
  • Image Optimization though Dark Energy
  • Texture Management & Camera Texture Matching
  • Title Design
  • Film Scanning on ARRISCAN™
  • Film Recording on ARRILASER™
  • Display Calibration

  • Hi-Speed Data Transfer (Aspera, Air-Stream, direct private fiber connections)
  • D-Cinema Mastering (DCDM, DCP)
  • Broadcast Mastering (UltraHD, HDSR)
  • QC for DCP, HDSR and Broadcast
  • 4K & 3D Screening w/ Christie 4220 and Xpand 3D on our 26.5′ screen
  • Dolby™ 7.1 Theatrical Sound Screenings / Mix Reviews
  • Feature Film and TV Dailies
  • Avid™ Calibration and Color Integration

The People of SKYLAB

Our passion is developing innovative workflows that achieve spectacular results.

With each project we aim to strike a balance between the technical and the creative aspects. We strive to elevate the creative process and celebrate technological advancements. Here is a look at some of the projects we have had the fortune of working on.

 

Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Raw Camera Original | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Raw Camera Original | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Raw Camera Original | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Raw Camera Original | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design
Raw Camera Original | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc
Color & Finishing by SKYLAB | © 2015 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc | VFX by Image Engine Design

Chappie
(2015)

Sony Pictures Entertainment
Director: Neill Blomkamp | DP: Trent Opaloch
Shot on: RED EPIC | Finish: 4K | Color: ACES
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak

 

© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
© 2013 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Elysium
(2013)

Sony Pictures Entertainment
Director: Neill Blomkamp | DP: Trent Opaloch
Shot on: RED EPIC | Finish: 4K | Color: ACES
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak
Read more in our Case Study ‘Inside The Elysium DI’ …

 

The Good Son

St Sophia, LLC
Director: Jesse James Miller | DP: Ian Kerr CSC
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot On: RED ONE, Mixed Archival

 

Becoming Redwood

StoryLab Productions
Director: Jesse James Miller | Cinematographer: David Crone
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE (MX)

 

In Their Skin

Sepia Films
Director: Jeremy Power Regimbal | Cinematographer: Norm Li CSC
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE (MX)

 

Arctic Air

CBC / Omni Film Productions
Executive Producer/Director: Gary Harvey | DP: Bruce Worrall CSC
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE (MX)

 

Endgame

Showcase Television | Thunderbird Films
Producing Director: David Frazee | Cinematographer: Mathias Herndl
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE (MX)

 

Facing Ali

Lionsgate Entertainment | Network Films | Spike TV
Director: Pete McCormack | Cinematographer: Ian Kerr CSC
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE, Mixed Archival

 

Tucker & Dale vs Evil

Magnet Releasing | Filmaka | Voltage Pictures
Director: Eli Craig | DP: David Geddes ASC, CSC
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot on: RED ONE

 

The Whale: Saving Luna

Mountainside Films
Directors: Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisolm
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak

 

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Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale

Panacea Entertainment
Director: Grant Harvey | DP: John Spooner
Colorist: Andrea Chlebak | Shot On: Panavision Genesis

  • Chappie

  • Elysium

    Elysium

  • The Good Son

    The Good Son

  • Becoming Redwood

    Becoming Redwood

  • In Their Skin

    In Their Skin

  • Arctic Air

    Arctic Air

  • Endgame

  • Facing Ali

    Facing Ali

  • Tucker & Dale vs Evil

    Tucker & Dale vs Evil

  • The Whale: Saving Luna

  • Freezer Burn

    Freezer Burn

News and Press. The Latest about SKYLAB.

Reel West Mag | ‘Post Production House Servicing Chappie Feature Rebrands to Become Skylab’ | February 2015
American Cinematographer Mag | ‘Elysium: Worlds Apart - Trent Opaloch Incites a Rebellion’ | September 2013
Reel West Mag | ‘Vancouver Post, VFX, & Sound Facilities Combine Forces on Sony Pictures’ Elysium’ | Fall 2013
Creative Mornings | ‘Coloring For Film’: Andrea Chlebak on How Color Changes Perception | September 2014
FilmLight | Case Study: ‘Creating a 4K ACES Finish for Elysium’ | August 2013
Definition Magazine | ‘The Shadow Conform is Born’: Grading Profile | Fall 2013
RED Digital Cinema Online | ‘Elysium DI Colorist Talks 4K Finish & Big Picture’ | August 2013
Post Magazine | ‘Digital Intermediate: Elysium’ | October 2013
North Shore News | ‘Elysium Taps into Local Talent: Colourist Andrea Chlebak Part of Savvy Team’ | August 2013
Studio Daily | ‘Elysium Colorist Andrea Chlebak on Managing Naturalistic Looks for a VFX-Heavy Film’ | July 2013
MyTherapy Studios | ‘Elysium by Andrea Chlebak’: Color Grading Feature | August 2013
Pressbox | ‘Elysium Aesthetic Guided by Game-Changing Vancouver Company’ | August 2013
Below The Line | ‘Central & FilmLight Create ACES Workflow for Elysium Finish’ | August 2013
Reel West Mag | ‘Seeing Double’: Jesse James Miller on Making Two Films in Less Than Two Years | May 2013

Past & Present Clients

 

We love film. We want to be a part of yours.

 
SKYLAB Services Inc.
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122 West 8th Ave
Vancouver, BC
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Phone +1.604.879.5800

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