DreamWorks Animation will open source its MoonRay renderer later this year

DreamWorks has been open sourcing some of its technology in recent years, and now its animation division is preparing to make more tools freely available. DreamWorks Animation said it will release its MoonRay ray-tracing renderer as open-source software later this year. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, DreamWorks will offer up its Arras cloud rendering framework in the code base too. "We are thrilled to share with the industry over 10 years of innovation and development on MoonRay's vectorized, ...