New Official OCIO Configs (Patreon)

The Academy Software Foundation just released a new batch of official OpenColorIO configs. What changed and what does it mean for users?

The most notable improvement is the reactivation of Display color spaces. This makes it easier to do the output-transform-on-input-images workflow that we talked about here. It's interesting that they're reversing course and endorsing this approach despite its potential pitfalls.

AdobeRGB and Apple Log color spaces have been added.

There are new recommended aliases for many color spaces, such as lin_ap1_scene instead of ACEScg, srgb_rec709_scene instead of Utility - sRGB - Texture, and more. This is mostly about interoperability between DCCs, renderers, compositing apps, etc. If companies get on board with the same aliases it should make working across various programs more seamless. For individual users this isn't very important.

This is a nice update overall, but there's nothing must-have. Feel free to keep using your existing OCIO setup without fear of missing out on the latest and greatest!