Spice 70 LUT

Fear is the colour-killer.

A desert-epic look inspired by the colour world of Dune: Part Two and Dune: Part Three. Dense contrast, warm ochre neutrals and an almost monochrome palette of sand, stone and skin, with greens and blues drained towards dust and steel. Deliberately stylised, so the look reads on any footage, not only in the desert.

What you will notice

• Deep, dense blacks and low, heavy midtones for a monumental, large-format feel.
• A warm ochre cast through every tone: whites turn to sun-bleached cream, greys to sand.
• Oranges, skin, sand and yellows converge on one ochre family.
• Greens drained almost completely, towards dry sand and olive.
• Blues and cyans reduced to pale steel; purples to muted red-brown.
• Skin kept warm and readable inside the monochrome palette.

How to use it

1. Find the folder for your camera. Fifteen input profiles are included in one download.
2. Balance first. Set exposure and white balance on the log footage.
3. Apply Spice 70 as the look stage. It is intentionally strong: 60-80% strength suits most everyday footage, 100% for full desert-epic.

How it was developed

Spice 70 was built by measuring the tone curve, the colour of neutrals at every brightness level, the hue distribution and the skin in a set of reference frames from Dune: Part Two, then designing an original look that matches those characteristics and pushes them further. Dune: Part Three moves to 70mm and IMAX film; the look will be refined against it after release. It works on scene-linear light after a published-specification input transform for each camera, with smooth hue transitions so skin and gradients stay clean.

Best suited for

• Deserts, beaches, dunes, quarries and dry landscapes.
• Epic, historical and science-fiction short films.
• Music videos and fashion work with a monumental, monochrome feel.
• Travel films in hot, dusty light.

Spice 70 is an original look by OFFWHITECOLOR. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the films or their studios.