Why Is Every Movie Poster Orange and Blue?

Transformers: The Last Knight

orange and blue movie posters
IMAGE BY: Paramount Pictures

Michael Bay’s “Transformers” franchise is the apotheosis of orange-and-blue color grading. When a team of post-production engineers at MIT designed an algorithm for automatic, AI-boosted color corrections, they used information from the first “Transformers” as their prime example for this particular look. Their results are very orange and blue.

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