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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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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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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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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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Muchas gracias a Edi Walger por traducir los siguientes artículos de ACES al español. Agradecemos sus esfuerzos para ayudar a comunicar sobre ACES a la comunidad de habla hispana. ¿Alguien más dispuesto a ayudar también? (Many thanks to Edi Walger for translating the following ACES articles into Spanish. We appreciate his efforts to help communicate…
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To the ACES Community, Today we have released ACES 1.1, a minor update to the ACES system, which includes a series of new features. This is a “minor” system release, and therefore the version number is incremented to 1.1. This means the update adds a number of transforms but does not change the look or modify…
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This is a really informative article about how ACES was used in a recent indie horror film, and shows that the sophisticated color science in ACES can help at all levels of production/post production. Many thanks to Randi Altman’s postPerspective and writer Debra Kaufman! There is an accompanying video from the colorist/post supervisorPeder Morgenthaler, that…
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Check out this news on the ACES Logo program as reported in Post Perspective:http://postperspective.com/aces-adds-new-companies-logo-program/ ACES adds new companies to Logo Program Six new companies have been added to the ACES Logo Program. Membership in the program signals that the companies are committed to implementing ACES into their hardware and software products in conformance with program…
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Announcing – The “Epic Thread” Badge. https://acescentral.com/badges/102/epic-thread We’ve created this Badge to recognize users who have created a Thread that significantly contributed to the understanding or usability of the ACES system. Thanks to Nick Shaw, Geoff Boyle and Paul Dore the first recipients, for their exceptional work. If you feel there are other worthy threads,…
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Very informative article on ACES article in the American Cinematographer Magazine. “The Academy Color Encoding System is a high-end image control tool that’s available to filmmakers working at every level.” Way too long to summarize here, you’ll just have to read it here! : https://ascmag.com/articles/aces-for-indies Many thanks to the ASC, Canon USA, Debra Kaufman and…
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