Full-color version of ‘Endless’ visual album surfaces

A production still from Endless, 2016.

In June 2020, full-color stills from Frank Ocean’s 2016 Endless visual album surfaced online, revealing for the first time the rainbow-colored staircase being built behind a black-and-white veneer. Today, it was discovered that a full-color copy of the video has been made available online.

Grant Lau is a credit director who has worked for the NFL, MTV, HBO, AMC, Marvel, and The Black Eyed Peas, as well as on VFX for Endless. The color copy was located within his online portfolio. It appears the video was uploaded in January 2021 and may have been available to the public since that time.

Credits:

Client: Def Jam
Director: Frank Ocean
Production Designer: Thomas Mastorakos
VFX: Grant Lau, Tim Williams, Thomas McMahan
Editor/DP: Francisco Soriano
Colorist: Brandon Chavez

Still frames from the film are shown below; select an image to view a full-size version. Watch the full video here.

Thanks to u/LochnessAndLoad on Reddit for the tip.

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