DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay Renderer Code Published

Today, DreamWorks published the open-source code for MoonRay, their production renderer used for films like The Bad Guys, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and other animation films. 'OpenMoonRay is available via DreamWorks Animation's GitHub,' reports Phoronix. 'This professional-grade renderer is available under an Apache 2.0 license.'

From the README: '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.'

More details can be found via OpenMoonRay.org.

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