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Sora

The house signature: turquoise-leaning skies that keep their gradient, warm red mids under cold whites, skin that stays skin.

Ungraded log footage of a 7-Eleven street corner in Sapporo
The same street corner through the Sora LUT: airy turquoise sky, warm brick and skin tones
Drag the handle. Left: the camera's log file. Right: Sora, nothing else applied.

How Sora was built

Sora (空, Japanese for "sky") is the grade the rest of this library descends from, and it earned the name: most of its tuning was a fight for the sky. Log footage stores a bright sky as almost-gray, and the lazy fix is to detect that sky and swap in a nicer one. That shortcut is exactly what makes so many LUTs look like a filter. Sora deliberately has no sky detection at all. Blues are amplified like any other color, proportionally to what the camera actually caught, so a faint hazy sky becomes a believable pale one and a real blue sky goes full turquoise. The gradient always survives.

The rest of the character: a luminous lift, cold whites over warm red mids (the tension that makes a frame read "lit" rather than "filtered"), and a dedicated guard that keeps skin out of the saturation push. It was tuned across ten measured iterations against a reference grade on real Sapporo street footage, one harsh noon frame and one backlit evening one, matching the scopes rather than the pixels.

Get Sora, and everything else

Pick the version that matches how you shoot and get every look in one zip, each file already correct for your footage, plus the license and a one-page install guide for Resolve, Premiere, Final Cut and CapCut.

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Also in the pack

  • Retro Surf

    70s-postcard: a cool turquoise world with warmth laid only on people and whites, pink clouds over a cyan sky.

  • Horror Green

    A corridor drowned in sick emerald, with the practical lights still glowing white. Your exposure untouched.

  • Horror Blue

    The same dread in steel: a corridor flooded with deep blue, the lamp still burning white.

  • Vinland

    The elf-world grade: gold in the highlights, a warm floor so nothing is ever black, dirt trails a proper brown, greens vivid and luminous, skies a light pastel blue.

  • Panelka

    The cold one: blacks that actually reach black, a grey-blue floor, deep skies, and colour held on a leash so a shop sign cannot shout over the concrete.

  • Ronin

    Black and white the way film did it: a red-weighted channel mix, so skies go dark, foliage drops away and skin stays bright and smooth. Not a saturation slider at zero.

  • Calm Blue

    Luminous blue-green daylight: the colour lives in the shade and the whites stay pure, which is what makes it read bright rather than filtered.

  • Bold Cinema

    Teal-orange with deep blacks: the world goes teal and dense while skin stays bright and natural, not orange plastic.

  • Matcha

    A lush jade-and-lime world: greens that deepen in the shade and glow in the sun, green-black shadows, a matte pale-mint top, skin kept human.