International Cinematography Summit – ACES Panel Video
Check out this video from the 2018 International Cinematography Summit on “Real World Usage of ACES.” Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President John Bailey, ASC introduces the program, followed by a presentation from ACES Project Chair (and VP Creative Technologies Universal Pictures) Annie Chang. A panel discussion of ACES with cinematographers Geoff Boyle…
Read More3D Artist Magazine talks ACES for Visual Artists
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…
Read MoreMajor Mini-series “Vanity Fair” uses ACES
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…
Read MoreSmash 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…
Read MoreLMT 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…
Read MoreArtículos 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…
Read MoreJoin 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…
Read MoreRequest for review and comments on v0.1 Draft of “ACES Output Transform Details”
This is an open call to the community for review and comment on a document entitled “ACES Output Transform Details”. This document is essentially a catalog of the header information from the CTL files (plus a bit more). Comments or suggestions on anything in the document are welcomed. I am aware that the “definitions” sections…
Read MoreACES 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…
Read MoreNew indie horror film “Hoax” benefits from ACES – Article and video!
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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