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.

DreamWorks is OVER THE MOON to announce that MoonRay, our proprietary production renderer, will be released as open source software later this year!

Read the full announcement and updates at https://t.co/uy7kLajgDMhttps://t.co/CYKfBVBe3n

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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: