DreamWorks to Open Source Proprieteray Renderer “MoonRay” [non-blender]

DreamWorks Animation has just announced that it will be open sourcing its production renderer “MoonRay” later this year.

Here’s a snippet from the announcement describing the renderer:

MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, the upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, as well as future titles. MoonRay was developed at DreamWorks and is in continuous active development and includes an extensive library of production-tested, physically based materials, a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework.

Check out the MoonRay showreel in the video above, and read more about it on the link below:

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