ACES at HPA Tech Retreat 2019

If you’re the HPA Tech Retreat this week don’t miss the many ACES conversations – here’s two to start: 7:30a on 2/14 ACESclip: what should a color metadata standard look like? Breakfast Roundtable with Chris Clark 11:00am on 2/14 ACESNext and the Academy Digital Source Master: Extensions, Enhancements, and a Standardized Deliverable with Annie Chang, Joachim Zell and Dr.…

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ACES at HPA Tech Retreat 2019

If you’re the HPA Tech Retreat this week don’t miss the many ACES conversations – here’s two to start: 7:30a on 2/14 ACESclip: what should a color metadata standard look like? Breakfast Roundtable with Chris Clark 11:00am on 2/14 ACESNext and the Academy Digital Source Master: Extensions, Enhancements, and a Standardized Deliverable with Annie Chang, Joachim Zell and Dr.…

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ACES in Spain!

Thanks to ACES Product Partner SGO for including ACES in their recent presentations. Here’s the article (in Spanish) with a partial translation below. “The second part of the initial workshop was dedicated to the workflows using industry standard ACES (Academy Color Encoding System), from the camera capture to display on an HDR monitor. This technical presentation was…

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ACES Training in China!

ACES Vice chair Joachim Zell recently help teach a class in Beijing and reports that ACES was well received! The eight day class taught imaging science and color correction for film-makers using ACES on LiveGrade, BaseLight and Resolve. The Beijing ARRI Academy Trainers were:Cinematographer: Kees Van Oostrum ASCColorist: Utsi from ARRITechnologist: Joachim Zell EFILM Visual Arts:…

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ACES use on Black Panther

https://codex.online/casestudies/Rachel-Morrison-ASC-on-Black-Panther Thanks to ACES Product Partner Codex and DIT Nicholas Kay for talking about their use of ACES on the blockbuster movie “Black Panther”. ” At the time ACEScct was brand new, and we were one of the first jobs to use it. I think it was a great choice for the African-American palette and…

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International Cinematography Summit – ACES Panel Video

Check out this video from the 2018 International Cinematography Summit on “Real World Usage of ACES.” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President John Bailey, ASC introduces the program, followed by a presentation from ACES Project Chair (and VP Creative Technologies Universal Pictures) Annie Chang. A panel discussion of ACES with cinematographers Geoff Boyle…

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3D Artist Magazine talks ACES for Visual Artists

Thanks to 3D Artist Magazine and Carrie Mok (Editor), Greg Barta (Author) for this coverage on the importance of ACES to the Visual Artists and the VFX community! Thanks too, to Paul Chambers for bringing it to all our attention! Check back here for more information on this coming up…! Thanks to 3D World Editor 3D Rob…

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Major Mini-series “Vanity Fair” uses ACES

Two recent articles talk about ACES use on major mini-series “Vanity Fair”. Thanks to Technicolor London Creative Director Gary Brown for this ‘should out’ to ACES: CNET: Has the processing power required increased?Brown: Absolutely. Look at the bit depth – how much information is in the picture, like a still camera’s megapixels. Historically we would…

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Smash hit feature Crazy Rich Asians uses ACES!

Great story on the smash hit rom-com Crazy Rich Asians and how they used ACES. Notable quote: “During principal photography Černjul lit the film with the ACES LUT and Selkirk applied CDL corrections to every shot. This made their color grading sessions more efficient and gave Nakamura more time to work on creative color decisions rather…

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