Dreamworks, a movie company that handles 'Hiccup and Dragon' and 'Boss Baby', releases the source of the renderer 'MoonRay'



DreamWorks , which produced many popular animation movies such as ' How to Train Your Dragon ,' 'Bad Guys ,' and 'Boss Baby Family Mission ,' has open-sourced its in-house renderer, ' MoonRay ,' and released it on GitHub. .

GitHub - dreamworksanimation/openmoonray
https://github.com/dreamworksanimation/openmoonray



MoonRay Production Renderer
https://openmoonray.org/

MoonRay Open Source Launch Press Release - March 15, 2023 - MoonRay_Open_Source_Launch_Press_Release.pdf
(PDF file) https://openmoonray.org/MoonRay_Open_Source_Launch_Press_Release.pdf

MoonRay is DreamWorks' internally developed MCRT ( Monte Carlo Ray Tracing ) renderer that has been used in various DreamWorks animated feature films. An official video introducing MoonRay is also available on YouTube.

MoonRay | DreamWorks Animation-YouTube


On March 15, 2023 local time, DreamWorks released MoonRay to the public as open source. DreamWorks said it has been working with a small number of beta testers to adapt the codebase to ensure MoonRay works well outside of DreamWorks, as well as create documentation, rebuild libraries, and reduce library dependencies. increase.

MoonRay is designed with an emphasis on efficiency and scalability, and enables a wide range of image expressions, from realistic to animation-like styles. Developed on an architecture that includes an extensive library of physically-based materials, Hydra render delegates for rendering support, distributed rendering support, photorealistic ray tracing acceleration using Intel Embree , and accelerators to support content creation It seems that it includes functions such as oneAPI that simplifies

'MoonRay uses every available core or GPU to enable interactive artistic exploration,' said Andrew Pearce, vice president of global technology at DreamWorks Animation. was born at the intersection of art and science, and I'd love to see what the community of artists and developers do with MoonRay.'

'MoonRay's contribution is a great demonstration of DreamWorks' continued commitment to open source,' said Bill Value, Chief Technology Officer, DreamWorks Animation. It has made us stronger and we look forward to our continued collaboration.'

DreamWorks' major feature-length animated films actually produced using MoonRay are as follows.

How to Train Your Dragon Adventure to the Holy Land



snow baby



Crude's new adventure



Trolls Music Power



bad guys



boss baby family mission



In Japan, it is scheduled to be released on March 17, 2023 (Friday), and the 95th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, `` The Cat in Boots and the Nine Lives, '' was also produced using MoonRay. That's it.

Movie ``Cat with long boots and nine lives'' notice 3.17 release-YouTube


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