Posts by Steve Tobenkin
ACES Education at Sundance Film Festival Asia 2023
ACES Vice chair Joachim Zell, recently lead several presentations featuring ACES at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan. ACES is a global standard and continues to grow in popularity internationally. Thanks to Iris Wu (team member of the Sundance Asia) and Sundance Asia team for their support.
Read MoreTop Colorists and Manufacturers Talk Workflows – ACES is ‘Front and Center’
Thanks to Randi Altman and postPerspective for this long and in-depth virtual roundtable on the state of the art of color workflows. Lot of support and use of ACES throughout! Have a look:
Read MoreAcademy at Oslo Digital Cinema Conference 2023
ACES Adoption Lead Steve Tobenkin, presented an update on ACES and other activities from the Academy’s Science and Technology Council at the 2023 Oslo Digital Cinema Conference in Oslo, Norway recently. In additional to ACES, Topics included the Spectral Similarity Index (SSI), the Academy Digital Preservation Forum (ADPF) and the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF). The…
Read More2023 Colorist Mixer
April 16th 6pm – 10pm. Thanks to everyone at iColorist and Colorist Society for organizing. ACES is proud to be a sponsor.
Read More“Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead” is latest Documentary to use ACES!
Thanks to Jeff Sousa, Dungeon Beach and SGO for this great read and the wonderful work. See story here: https://bit.ly/3ZQkpKt
Read MoreAutodesk 3ds Max now has support for ACES and OpenColorIO
As announced today on ACESCentral, by Doug Walker from Autodesk: https://help.autodesk.com/view/3DSMAX/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-BE98FEB6-5E30-4928-8C69-92F584D10CA0 1 This feature is a Technology Preview, so we’re looking forward to getting feedback to help us refine it in future releases.
Read MoreNew Case Study for Netflix show “Smiley”
Use this link to find out more! https://www.sgo.es/smiley/ Thanks to SGO, Netflix and all the creatives involved!
Read MoreThe Art of Color and Finishing for ‘Smiley’, a Netflix Top 50 Best TV Show
Thanks to ACES Product Partner, SGO, DPs Pol Orpinell and Hermes Marco and the team at Antaviana VFX and Postproduction, for this in depth conversation about using ACES with Mistika. (English and Espanol) The Netflix series ‘Smiley‘ has made its mark among the top 50 best TV shows according to The New York Times. Produced…
Read MoreEric Whipp colors George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing with Baselight and ACES
Thanks to Eric Whipp co-founder and senior colourist at Alter Ego in Toronto. He recently collaborated with George Miller on the Three Thousand Years of Longing (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9198364/reference/) and successfully used ACES on the Baselight from our Product Partner FilmLight! Read about the production here: https://www.tvbeurope.com/production-post/case-study-baselight-helps-george-miller-achieve-his-vision-for-three-thousand-years-of-longing
Read MoreMasterclass on Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) at IFFI (Goa Film Festival)
ACES Vice-chair Joachim Zell and ACES Adoption Lead Steve Tobenkin will teach a 90 minute Masterclass on the Academy Color Encoding System, at the 53rd Annual IFFI Goa Film Festival on Saturday November 26 in Goa, India. The class is expected to be streamed and posted afterwards for the community to enjoy…check back here for…
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