# sobotka/filmic-blender

Film Emulsion-Like Camera Rendering Transforms for Blender

Repository: https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/filmic-blender
Homepage: https://sobotka.github.io/filmic-blender/
License Family: other
Last push: 2022-12-07T17:48:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3640, "days_push": 1365, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2079, forks 134 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:11.559113+00:00)

## What it is
An OpenColorIO configuration that adds film emulsion-like camera rendering view transforms to Blender's Cycles and Renderman render engines. It provides tone mapping and gamut compression to produce photorealistic, high dynamic range imagery.

## Use cases
- render photorealistic images in Blender Cycles
- tone map high dynamic range renders for display
- avoid blown-out highlights and oversaturated colors in CGI renders
- emulate a photographic film curve in 3D renders
- prepare renders for HDR display output
- improve dynamic range handling in non-photorealistic Blender work

## When to choose
- you use Blender Cycles or Renderman and want film-like color response
- your renders suffer from harsh sRGB tone mapping and gamut clipping
- you need a drop-in OpenColorIO config with no compilation

## When to avoid
- you use render engines other than Blender Cycles or Renderman
- you need actively developed features (the project is in maintenance)
- you want a GUI tool rather than a color configuration

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: image-processing, graphics
- domain: graphics, media
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: opencolorio, color-management, tone-mapping, blender, 3d-rendering, film-emulation, hdr, game-development

## Member repositories
- sobotka/filmic-blender (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.559113+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:56:05.343618+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:11.559113+00:00, sha a2ada436f0fd)
  - homepage: https://sobotka.github.io/filmic-blender/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:36:33.088536+00:00, sha e7f93e8e192b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.