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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.

MoonRay is an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation and Academy Software Foundation. MoonRay was originally contributed by DreamWorks Animation, who uses MoonRay for all of their feature film production since How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. It has a full-time development staff focused on those productions and contributions from the open-source community.

MoonRay is released 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.