Ahead of SIGGRAPH 8, scheduled to take place in Vancouver, Canada from August 8 to 11, DreamWorks PicturesAnnounceIts animation rendering tool "MoonRay" will be open sourced this year, allowing more creators to use it to create more vivid animation works.
DreamWorks has previously used MoonRay to produce films including How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, The Croods: A New Age, The Bad Guys, and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, which is scheduled to be released at the end of this year. MoonRay primarily uses the Monte Carlo method to achieve more natural rendering effects through stochastic simulation.
The announcement that MoonRay will be open sourced is expected to be published through the OpenMoonRay.org website in the form of an Apache 2.0 web operating environment, and subsequent updates will continue to be provided. At the same time, Arras, a distributed computing framework that operates in the cloud and is used in conjunction with MoonRay, will also be included in the open source project.
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According to Andrew Pearce, Vice President of Global Technology at DreamWorks, DreamWorks is pleased to open source the "MoonRay" rendering tool, which has been developed and updated for over 10 years, and allow more creators to use it at will, thereby promoting the growth of the animation market and helping more creators bring better works to market.
In addition, Andrew Pearce also expects that "MoonRay" will continue to develop in an open source form and become an important tool for creating animations.
