The ASWF Takes OpenColorIO to the Next Level

The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was founded in 2018 to help foster and shepherd the development of open source software projects in the visual effects industry [ASWF 2018]. OpenColorIO was the second project accepted into the foundation [Olin 2019]. This paper provides a detailed description of a major update to the project: OpenColorIO v2. This update, representing more than ten developer-years of engineering effort, was carried out as the project transitioned from its original home at Sony Pictures Imageworks to the ASWF. In addition to providing technical details about OpenColorIO v2, the paper also serves as a case-study about the process of joining the Academy Software Foundation, and how that impacted the development process.