


The ray tracing renderer, used on animated features like The Bad Guys and the upcoming Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, will be publicly available later this year, along with Arras, its distributed rendering framework.Ī high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer capable of photorealistic and stylised outputĪlthough DreamWorks has made individual in-house technologies available to the public before – it open-sourced sparse volumetric data format OpenVDB in 2012 – MoonRay is a beast of a different scale.ĭeveloped to replace Moonlight, the studio’s old rasterisation renderer – this 2017 Siggraph presentation explores its origins – MoonRay is a high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer. Scroll down for news of the final release.ĭreamWorks Animation is to make MoonRay, its in-house production renderer, available open-source.
