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Welcome to the MoonRay Production Renderer documentation site!
MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render all DreamWorks movies since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.
DreamWorks has released MoonRay as open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. The release features
- the MoonRay high-performance path-tracing renderer.
- many of the MoonRay plugins developed at DreamWorks.
- a Hydra plugin for MoonRay, allowing its use in Hydra-supporting applications such as Houdini and Maya.
- the Arras system, used to distribute MoonRay rendering across multiple machines.
To get started, explore the links in the navigation or click here.