One of the first brands that comes to mind when it comes to animation. DreamWorkshas made a number of technologies open source in recent years. The company is now preparing to make some of the tools used by the animation department free for people.

According to comments from DreamWorks Animation moonbeam The Raytracing rendering program will be open source later this year. In addition, 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, DreamWorks Global Vice President of Technology Andrew Pearceannounced that they are excited to share MoonRay’s vectorized, distributed, threaded and parallel code, which has been in development for over 10 years. Pearce said the interest in rendering is gradually developing and said MoonRay can meet this demand and the company will continue to show its support for open source code. Pearce also said they expect further development of the code through community involvement.

MoonRay is attracting attention as one of DreamWorks’ most widely used programs of late. Among the productions in which this program is used How to Train a Dragon: The Hidden WorldThe Croods: A New Age, The Bad Guys and the Coming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish works like Let’s see when animation hobbyists sign animation projects at the same level as the tools DreamWorks uses. If you are also interested in creating animations, you can apply for early access through this link.