DreamWorks, one of the first brands that come to mind when it comes to animation, has made some technologies open source in recent years. The company is now preparing to make some of the tools used by the animation department free of charge for people.
According to statements from DreamWorks Animation, the ray tracing rendering program called MoonRay will be open sourced later this year. Moreover, the company will open the Arras cloud rendering framework with the main code.
DreamWorks expects further development of MoonRay
Making a statement on the subject, Andrew Pearce, Vice President of Global Technology at DreamWorks, announced that they are excited to share the vectorized, distributed, threaded and parallelized code of MoonRay, which has been developed for more than 10 years. Stating that the interest in rendering is gradually developing, Pearce said that MoonRay can respond to this demand and that the company will continue to show its support for open source codes. Pearce also stated that they expect further development of the code with community participation.
MoonRay draws attention as one of the most used programs by DreamWorks recently. Productions using this program include How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Croods: A New Age, The Bad Guys, and upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. Let’s see when people who deal with animation as a hobby will sign animation projects at the same level as the tools used by DreamWorks. If you are also interested in making animations, you can request early access from this link.
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