• [video] Workflow: Enders Game - Last week we featured a Studio Daily article on the Enders Game workflow. This week, Michael Cioni of Light Iron Digital goes in-depth through the data management and color pipeline of Ender's Game. Included in this 19 minute video: dailies, the on-set color, the editing workflow, data path, color science, and VFX. Great info. (vimeo.com)

• Workflow: Deep Water - Aussie-based Colorist Juan Melara walks you through the grade he created for a new short film. Juan used a Kodak 2393 LUT on Alexa LogC ProRes. He provides good workflow information, including his color inspiration and provides numerous photos.  (juanmelara.com.au)

• Outstanding Color Grading - Colorist Dave Cole was honored recently for his work on Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi.' Cole won Outstanding Color Grading for a Feature Film at the Hollywood Post Alliance's Award show. ( shootonline.com)

• One author, two new books - Colorist/Filmmaker/Author Alexis Van Hurkman is out with not one, but two, books that every Colorist should own. 'Color Correction Handbook,' 2nd Edition has been fully updated and revised. Alexis split off a chapter from the previous edition to write a new 2nd book called, 'Color Correction Look Book.' Blog story details both, with links to Amazon. ( vanhurkman.com | Pre-order the 2nd Edition |  Pre-order the Look Book)

• [video] A.C.E.S. - put on a pot of coffee for this one, as it clocks in at just under an hour. Digital Cinema Society goes in-depth about A.C.E.S. (Academy Color Encoding Specification), it's development and history. Great info. (vimeo.com via @jonnyelwyn )

• Understanding lens vignetting - colorists regularly employ vignettes into their work. Here's the optics behind the phenomenon. It may give you a few ideas. (red.com)

• [video] How to use window light - in portraiture. Great, great video of using light to mold the countours of a face and body. Great background info for colorists. (youtu.be via filmmakeriq.com)

• Forays into contrast land - a thread from Lift Gamma Gain inspires an After Effects plug-in that manipulates contrast in the Luma portion of the HSL color space. Some interesting ideas here for Resolve 10 users who now have access to grading in the HSL space within a node. Watch the embedded video for ideas. (creativeimpatience.com )

• Optimizing playback in DaVinci Resolve 10 - there are a slew of preference settings to help you maximize every ounce of performance out of your color grading rig. (ilovehue.net)

• [video] Adding grain - video tutorial demonstrating how to use OFX plugins in DaVinci Resolve v10. The demo starts at 3:30. ( youtube.com via @splicenpost_ny)

• [blog] Son of adding grain  - Colorist Nikolai Waldman offer an alternate way to add film grain inside of Resolve... and maintain real-time playback by not to using a plugin at all. By the way - his technique also works in Resolve 9 & 10 by using the Output key opacity in your film grain node. (niwa.nu via @jonnyelwyn)

• Why Mavericks' movies may not play properly - another annoying Mac OS consumer 'feature' that will be a headache for post-production professionals. (macworld.com)

• Broadcast Engineering magazine shuts down - when I worked at post houses, this was one of my favorite mags... not that I understood 50% of what they were saying. Still, sad to see it go. (devoncroft.com)

• [video] Killing Kennedy - as the 50th anniversary of the assassination approaches, go behind the scenes of this National Geographic movie. 6 different sets, multiple talent, key art and photography shooting plus Phantom Flex, Red Epic and 8mm cameras.  (vimeo.com)

• The next generation of color spaces - the basic premise of this article talks about how the ground is shifting, thanks to 4K. Rec. 2020 is the new Rec. 709. The new colorspace does not cover the entire CIE diagram, however. If you want to know why, read on. (redsharknews.com)

• Panasonic quits the plasma display business - we all knew this was coming. Panny confirmed it late last month. More details after the link. ( hdtvtest.co.uk)

• [video] Create your own keyboard shortcuts (to instantly access Resolve's Log grading tools) - a great tip that works with any bit of software that has a fixed interface. Members only. (mixinglight.com)

• [video] Grading green screen - strategies for grading and delivering green screen elements. Members only. (mixinglight.com)

• [video] Building a Day-for-Night Look - Members only. (mixinglight.com)

• Happy birthday to digital editing - non-linear editing is celebrating its 25th birthday. This article is like a family photo album, tracing digital editing's first steps, its first big Hollywood production, and, it's first Oscar (for being edited in Final Cut Pro.) Don't forget to blow out the candles. ( premiumbeat.com)

• [podcast] Coloristos Episode 14: Broadcast TV - the Coloristos discuss online editing and grading for broadcast TV. Josh, Juan, and Jason also cover color tools that are facilitating the rapid adoption of feature film workflows into high-end episodic TV. ( coloristos.com)

• Breaking it all down for you - George Lucas breaks down the essence of Star Wars in a collection of images. Nice quotes, and insights. Personal favorite: watching the series with the sound turned off. Lucas would make up his own voices, and story line. ( fastcocreate.com)

• Canon suspends downloading of C300 firmware update - plus an update on what the problem was. ( notesonvideo.blogspot.com)

• Why low-budget filmmakers shouldn't be their own producers - basically... it's tough to think and talk at the same time. (indiewire.com )

• Do you wanna know a secret? - when it comes to creating great motion graphics there are really only 3 choices.  (starwipemyass.tumblr.com)

• [video] Alex Trebeck has gone insane - a great bit from Conan. (youtu.be via filmmakeriq.com)

• [video] Honest Trailers: Man of Steel - the last 30 seconds sum up exactly how I felt about this movie. ( filmmakeriq.com)

• [video] First person view: Life as a dolly grip - Fun. (filmmakeriq.com)

• [video] Trailer: The Lego Movie - seriously? (filmmakeriq.com)

• [video] 30 for 30 shorts: The schedule makers - For 25 years this husband & wife team crafted the entire schedule of 2,300 Major League Baseball games. Fascinating story. Perfect for a Sunday morning. (espn.go.com )

• [infographic] The bourbon family tree - and 5 things you can learn from it. (kottke.org)

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• [video] RED, heavyweight talent, and 10 days - those are the ingredients behind 'Tattoo,' a short film to show off the 5K EPIC. Talent included: Director Bill Paxton (Apollo 13, Big Love, Titanic),  Colorist Ian Vertovec (Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and DP David Devlin (War of the Worlds, Lincoln, House of Cards). Watch the 9 minute film (here). Read Michael Cioni in-depth blog about supervising the Digital Acquisition ( here).  Lots of great workflow info. (via @michael_cioni)