Events
ACES really knows no borders! ACES Project Vice-chair Joachim Zell was recently in Mongolia for the “Hollywood in Mongolia” Film Festival. The festival is aimed at learning experience from world-class experts, initiating collaboration between Mongolian and Hollywood artists and organizing capacity building programs for national filmmakers. ACES concepts were shared and of course local customs…
Read MoreWe’re planning an ACES Birds of a Feather meeting at Siggraph 2019 as part of the Open Source BoF Track being organized by the Academy Software Foundation. Session Time Tuesday, 30 July 2019 2pm – 3pmLocation Diamond Ballroom 7-10, JW Marriott Details on the program can be found on the SIGGRAPH site: https://s2019.siggraph.org/presentation/?id=bof_137&sess=sess318 The ACES presentation is part of a…
Read MoreWe’ve got an “All-Star” line up of experienced ACES users who will talk about their experience on ACES shows and present on topics of interest to the ACES community. This is a casual and intimate event so you’ll be able to ask questions and meet the speakers, other ACES users as well as ACES Leadership…
Read MoreSee bottom of this thread for materials from the meeting!! Please join us at NAB 2019 for our Birds of a Feather meeting where we’ll present some important ACES release and process announcements, as well as hold a group discussion on the ACES development roadmap…you don’t want to miss this! We’re in Room N243 which easily found…
Read MoreThanks to all the participants who are joining our Virtual Working Groups and helping to make ACES more feature packed and easier to use. When you participate, we’re granting a ‘badge’ to your ACESCentral profile to show the community your efforts. You can see who is contributing here. Please join the ACESNext efforts! Active groups are listed…
Read MoreIf 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.…
Read MoreThanks 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…
Read MoreACES 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:…
Read MoreJoin us at Siggraph 2018 as we host what will be a very lively “Birds of a Feather.”We plan to present and discuss findings from dozens of meetings on what people want in the next version of ACES. It’s an open discussion and we want your voice in the conversation! We are also sponsors of the…
Read MoreThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted a contingent of over 90 cinematographers from around the world as part of the ASC International Cinematography Summit taking place this week in Hollywood. The day began with a welcome from Academy President and fellow Cinematographer John Bailey, ASC. This was followed by a presentation and…
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