Blender 5.0, ACES 2.0 and ACEScg ( and yes talks aboug AgX too)

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Looked like this might be a nice overlap with photography.

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oh and ICYMI:

OpenColorIO 2.5 no also comes with ACES 2.0 and Vulkan support. But blender is not using that yet. It is planned for 5.1.

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Geez, that looks rather amazing even compared to AgX. Perfect timing, just when @kofa is wrapping up the AgX module. :sweat_smile:

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There’s also OpenDRT, whose developer is also on this forum. :slight_smile: ART already has it. OpenDRT for ART

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Hello,

sorry for replying late to this thread. But with the recent release of Blender 5.0 with ACES 2.0, I think it would be interesting for the community to raise some awareness about it.

I have written an article: What makes a good picture (formation) ? - Chris Brejon
which tries to describe the different components of a successful picture formation.

Don’t get me wrong, it can be interesting to have a common standard for color management in the industry. But I wish the quality of the pictures would be prioritized.

I hope this article will help you in your knowledge about color management and help you craft great pictures.

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Wow.
This, imho, is a must read article.
Not only for devs, but also every photographer, cinematographer, everyone in printing as well.

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Thanks a ton !

I have moved forward with a creation of my own LMT for ACES 2.0 and I have shared part of the process here:

I will release the LMT during the month on my Git. I hope it will help any ACES users to form better pictures as a starting point.

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That looks awesome…

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Geez, impressive results. With regards to hue shifts in the highlights it looks like it acts very much as I’d want a tone mapper to act. Would be interesting to see it go head-to-head with the darktable AgX module.

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Thanks for the kind words.

I used some great tools to generate this LUT. I cannot say much them because they haven’t been released yet publicly.

About ACES 2.0, I found it a bit hard to get where I wanted to (in terms if grading), like if I was “fighting” the picture formation. I found it especially challenging in the blues.

But since ACES is pretty much everywhere, I thought that generating some kind of “generic” LUT to give a better starting point would be an interesting exercise for me to perform.

Thanks.

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