ACES in VFX - by Alex Fry - Siggraph 2015 (tech level: med)

Alex Fry, compositing & colour pipeline supervisor details the benefits of using ACES and how he used a pre-release version of ACES on “The Lego Movie”

[@marioCazares]

This is my favorite talk on the subject and his explanation on cooking a custom IDT for cameras without one is quite helpful.

[@ThomasBeck]

Awesome talk, thanks so much for talking about this often underestimated but so important topic, Alex! And of course for recording the talk and putting it online!

[@SonGoku-dm4gr]

yeah.. Thank you for bringing us ACES.. Alex Fry you're a Legend

[@IamJohnnyFan]

I am nowhere this experience to understand with all the things that are explained. I do appreciate you for creating the slide show for this demonstration.

[@CGVerseSchool]

I personaly consider this the revolution of color management! ! ! This is a Revolution Guys! ! ! I am just a bit late to it .

[@maximgehricke3768]

Amazing talk! Even though it is a pretty intermediate topic, I had no major issues following his explanations.

[@apmanti12]

wow, alex fry is a real legend!

[@epereyralucena]

how do i download and add aces 1.0.3 profile to nuke, somehow i have 1.1 and 1.2 but i cant remember

[@diefilmschneiderei5828]

So few people, it looks like Corona-time, but is 2015 :D

[@lukaseberle1176]

Is there any chance to get a similar sRGB ODT? This is really a very natural looking remapping of all those out of range and gamut colors. I was always wondering how to get that - I desaturated highlights and high-saturation colors but that doesn't come close. This looks super! So instead of me applying at animal logic just to steal their ODT ;) it would be awesome if you could share something similar!

[@butterflyfilms939]

Look into OpenColorIO, there you should find everything you need.

[@default_youtube_profile]

What are IDT and ODT applied to image ?

[@butterflyfilms939]

The IDT (Input Device Transform) transforms from the camera Color Space into ACES in this case. The ODT (Output Device Transform) then transforms from ACES into the desired output color space.

[@lugerginyu]

Whoosh

[@verderuso]

The guy at the beginning looks like Seth Rogen.

[@PostApocolypseVideo]

Ya. They got the title of the video wrong.

[@IvanSchoeman]

Ah french....I just cant follow what he is talking about lol. Its mostly obviously problems encountered in major film development.

[@wonkaytry]

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu 😂