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Thanks to writer Jeff Berlin and ACES Product Partner Sony for featuring this great story about cinematographer Bradford Lipson and his work on “In the Dark” Season 2 for The CW Network. Entire article can be found here: https://aces.mp/BPIND2 with an excerpt of some of the ACES info below. Jeff: You’re not shooting for HDR,…

This article showcases Colorfront’s new Parametric LMT augmentation for ACES workflows. This was recently used on the HPA 2020 Lost Lederhosen demonstration project. This enhancement to a basic ACES workflow supports the design of custom looks from Colorfront’s large looks library. In addition, the Parametric LMT solves the current problems associated with extreme camera colors…

ACES Community Members, Today we are happy to announce the release of ACES 1.2: it includes a series of new features and enhancements that fulfill the ACES 1.0 vision and sets the stage for ACES 2.0 development. Key new features and enhancements include: A new specification for the ACES Metadata File (AMF) that replaces the…

Thanks to DIT Shibbir Ahmed for highlighting this great write-up on season 2 of “Sex Education”, including how he helped guide the show through its transition to ACES. Thanks to cinematographer Jamie Cairney and to The Guild of Television Camera Professionals (www.gtc.tv) for the coverage! You can download a PDF here: sex_ed_1.pdf

There has been a lot of VFX use of ACES in 2019. Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019) Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) Captain Marvel (2019) Dumbo (2019) Us (2019) The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Downton Abbey (2019)

Thanks to postPerspective for including two shows that used ACES in their 2019 re-cap issue: https://www.postperspective.com/ppnews-191226.html Efilm’s Natasha Leonnet: Grading Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Colorist Andreas Brueckl on embracing ACES workflow

Another mention of ACES on Downton Abbey. Pablo Garcia Soriano Head of Color at Mission gave us a preview of this at Cine Gear this year. The film had an ACES color workflow. Explains, Pablo Garcia Soriano, Head of Color at Mission, “The use of ACES was proposed from the very early stages of the workflow discussions.…

ACES in Mexico! ASC International Master Class session Mexico City, October 2019 Continuing with the mission of educating the next generations of film technicians, the ASC, is educating film students around the globe, and including ACES in the curriculum! Bill Bennett, ASC with Theo Van De Sande, ASC were teaching camera handling and lighting while associate…

Here’s an article by Filmmaker magazine with a mention of the workflow and use of ACES and Dolby Vision.Thanks to Filmmaker and author Matt Mulcahey! Enjoy! UPDATE! Here’s another article in Posts Magazine covering Mindhunter, Season Two, that also discusses workflows and ACES. The show’s second season developed a workflow that included HDR monitoring on-set. …

Thanks to Frame.io and author Ben Bailey for this great blog post: “Why Every Editor, Colorist, and VFX Artist Needs to Understand ACES” https://blog.frame.io/2019/09/09/aces/?utm_medium=blog&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=aces&fbclid=IwAR3X5ZoY-efpmywJzQhA_jsauCk0b6Gl6l92Ocdgx8s-J9NDaOSaEFayy9E Please feel free to leave comments and discussion here!