DreamWorks Animation To Open-Source MoonRay Renderer

guest · Aug 5, 2022

August 5, 2022

DreamWorks Animation announced today that they intend to release their MoonRay production renderer as open-source softwate later in 2022. DreamWorks' MoonRay renderer has been used for films such as How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Bad Guys, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, and other animated films.

MoonRay is a proven, physically-based, materials, multi-machine renderer. DreamWorks hopes that by open-sourcing MoonRay that it will become an even more competitive renderer. MoonRay supports utilizing DreamWorks' Arras distributed computation framework and makes use of some Intel software components like Embree and ISPC.
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MoonRay will be open-source under an Apache 2.0 license with the code being reviewed/cleared for release currently and that sign-off expected later in the year. The open-source site is OpenMoonRay.org though for the moment is just the DreamWorks Animation press release.
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Press Release (PDF): https://openmoonray.org/MoonRayPressRelease.pdf

DreamWorks Animation Announces Plans to Release MoonRay as Open Source Software
“We are thrilled to share with the industry over 10 years of innovation and development on MoonRay’s vectorized, threaded, parallel, and distributed code base,” said Andrew Pearce, Vice President of Global Technology at DreamWorks. “The appetite for rendering at scale grows each year, and MoonRay is set to meet that need. We expect to see the code base grow stronger with community involvement as DreamWorks continues to demonstrate our commitment to open source”.

“MoonRay has been a game-changer for our productions. We have over a billion hours of use at DreamWorks. As the open source community continues to embrace and enhance it we'll see significant benefits to the animation and visual effects industry as well as academia,” said Bill Ballew, Chief Technology Officer at DreamWorks.
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