ACES Colour Management in Maya

Two Autodesk tutorials explain Maya’s default ACES workflow and colour picking within the application’s colour-management system.

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ACES colour space: This short Autodesk tutorial explains how ACES works, where it fits and why Maya uses it as a default colour-management configuration.

Colour picking: A companion video covers colour selection inside Maya’s colour-management workflow. Together, the two tutorials provide a compact introduction to working with colour in the application.

Further training: The Maya Learning Channel also covered Bifrost, Unreal Live Link and texturing. Validate display transforms, render outputs and downstream colour configurations before production adoption.

Color Management in Maya: ACES default

Color Management in Maya: Color Picking