ACES enters a new chapter of open collaboration
The Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), the global standard for color management, is joining the ASWF, a home for open...
After Effects: Simple noise workflow for VFX
Before digital video cameras emerged, visual FX artists had to manage with film grain. And now that we have...
Color Management Part 26: ACES and After Effects – the express tutorial
ACES and OpenColorIO are the industry standard tools for color management in the VFX industry. It’s now been two...
Color Management Part 24: Corporate Branding Colors and video production
Adobe After Effects is the industry standard app for motion graphics, and yet working with color management can strike...
Color Management Part 23: HDR tone mapping in practise
When John Lennon said “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans”, he might have been talking...
Color Management Part 22: Introducing Tone Mapping
Tone Mapping is an integral part of modern video post production, but I didn’t even realise it was a...
Color Management Part 21: HDR formats, colorspaces and TLAs
High Dynamic Range video is a new frontier for many After Effects users, but despite the clear advantages it...
Color Management Part 20: HDR Compositing just looks better!
High Dynamic Range compositing, using 32 bit float mode in After Effects, just looks better. It’s that simple, and...
Color Management Part 19: High Dynamic Range – introducing HDR
High Dynamic Range video, or HDR, is the reason this entire series on color management exists. So it’s pretty...
Apple dares you to make cinema with the ACES supported, USB-C powered iPhone 15 Pro
It came 77 minutes into the September 12th Apple event, after the iPhone updates that will “change mobile gaming”…...
