Smash hit feature Crazy Rich Asians uses ACES!

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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LMT vs “proxyLMT”

Hi, looking around the industry there are many LMTs floating around today, that were created using an alternative display rendering. Those LMTs are usually used to give the same look within the ACES pipeline (mostly for OnSet Work and VFX Previs). The problem is that most of them go through a SDR display space like…

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Artículos de ACES en español! (ACES Articles in Spanish!)

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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Join us at Siggraph 2018!

Join 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…

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ACES 1.1 now available

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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ACES Adds New Companies to Logo Program – June 2018

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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ASC International Cinematography Day at the Academy 2018

The 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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Visit ACES at CineGear 2018!

If you’re in Los Angeles, please visit us at the ACES space at CineGear on June 1-2 We’re in Booth T123 which is in the “Blue Tank” area…covered and air conditioned this year! We’ve set up a casual “Meet and Greet” atmosphere, with speakers, ACES users and staff available both days. ASC, ICG, VES and other ACES…

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