Following its promise made back in August 2022 and the subsequent release of an in-depth FAQ, DreamWorks Animation has finally open-sourced MoonRay, the company's in-house production renderer used in such works as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Bad Guys, and the fan-favorite Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
For those unaware, MoonRay was made as a replacement for Moonlight, the studio's old rasterization renderer, and can generate both stylized and photorealistic results. Now open-sourced, the renderer 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.
