ASWF and DreamWorks Animation release MoonRay 2026.29

Latest open-source version of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2 adds work-in-progress MaterialX support.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2026

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.40

Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.

Monday, February 9th, 2026

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.34

Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.

Thursday, January 1st, 2026

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.15

Check out the new features in the open-source release of DreamWorks Animation's renderer. used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Sunday, June 15th, 2025

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.

Thursday, December 26th, 2024

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.5

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Croods: A New Age.

Sunday, March 3rd, 2024

DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Academy Software Foundation adopts OpenPGL

Path guiding library used in Blender, V-Ray and Disney's Hyperion renderer becomes open standards body's latest Sandbox project.

Monday, April 13th, 2026

Autodesk ships Maya 2024.1 and Maya Creative 2024.1

3D animation apps get new Hydra for Maya render delegate, plus updates to the LookdevX toolset.

Wednesday, May 17th, 2023