At the annual CG SIGGRAPH confab, scheduled to begin Monday in Vancouver, DreamWorks Animation announced its intention to release its proprietary renderer, MoonRay, as open source software later this year.
MoonRay has been used in films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Croods: A New Age, bad Boys and the future Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
“We are excited to share more than 10 years of innovation and development on MoonRay’s distributed, parallel, threaded and vectorized codebase with the industry,” said Andrew Pearce, Director of Global Technology at DWA. “The appetite for large-scale rendering is growing every year and MoonRay is ready to meet that need. We expect the codebase to grow with community participation as DreamWorks continues to demonstrate our commitment to open source.
MoonRay uses DreamWorks’ distributed computing framework, Arras, to also integrate with the open source foundation.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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