ACES in Mongolia!

By Steve Tobenkin | June 23, 2019 |

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…

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Thanks to ACES Product Partner FilmLight and their colorists who are using ACES!

By Steve Tobenkin | June 19, 2019 |

Thanks to ACES Product Partner FilmLight and their many colorists who are using ACES! Some notable ACES highlights from the most recent FilmLight newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/filmlight/ypgvly0u9f-914361?e=ad5ce7886b Andrea Chlebak Senior Colourist at Deluxe Entertainment Services (Encore Hollywood and EFilm) Andrea has worked on upwards of 19 ACES projects from big budget movies like “Chappie” and “Elysium” to TV pilots,…

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ACES Birds of a Feather at SIGGRAPH 2019 – Presentation and video links added!

By Steve Tobenkin | June 7, 2019 |

We’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…

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FotoKem uses ACES Workflow on Universal Pictures Film “Little”

By Steve Tobenkin | May 14, 2019 |

Check out this article on the Bi-Coastal ACES workflow on the film “Little.” The DI and the film conform happened concurrently, with colorist Alastor Arnold and cinematographer) Greg Gardiner working together daily. “We had a full ACES pipeline, with high dynamic range and high bit rate, which both Greg and I liked,” Arnold says. “The…

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ACES user Andreas Brueckl talks ACES with Post Perspective

By Steve Tobenkin | April 24, 2019 |

Thanks to Post Perspective, Randi Altman and writer Debra Kaufman for this profile of ACES user, Sr. Colorist Andreas Brueckl. Andreas is currently based in India and his story highlights that ACES adoption is a global phenomenon! Worth another look…thanks to post perspective for featuring this article in their A Look Back at the Best of…

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Presentations from NAB 2019 Birds of a Feather Meeting 4/9/19

By Steve Tobenkin | April 15, 2019 |

See 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…

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Dumbo and ACES

By Steve Tobenkin | April 8, 2019 |

Thanks to VFX Voice for discussing Dumbo’s use of ACES. “Production utilized the ACES [Academy Color Encoding Specification] pipeline, which incorporated a film-emulation show LUT favored by cinematographer Davis. “The whole delivery process from the original pulls, to Pinewood Digital [for dailies], editorial and back to DI is working very well,” reports Stammers. “There are…

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