From the course: Maya 2016 New Features

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Understanding color management

Understanding color management - Maya Tutorial

From the course: Maya 2016 New Features

Understanding color management

- Maya 2016 has a new color managment system. It's a shared software component across multiple Autodesk applications. It's called Autodesk Color Management, also known as Synergy or SynColor. A color management system has multiple purposes. For one, we want it to make sure that what we see on our screen is the same as what the audience sees, on for example, a digital cinema projector. Color management also exists so that we can utilize a so-called linear color space, in which calculations of light intensities are based upon just straight linear addition. There's no contrast curve inherent in the lighting itself. This then means we can use physically accurate lighting scenarios such as, Maya's Physical Sun and Sky. Another application of color management is when we're rendering out to a RAW file. We want to make sure that we've correctly adjusted any incoming textures, so that their gamma correction is removed. This is necessary when you're rendering out, for example, a series of…

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