The Academy Software Foundation, the leading open source foundation for advancing open source software in motion pictures, visual effects and animation, today announced that MoonRay, the open source ...

DreamWorks Animation announced their intent to release their proprietary production renderer, MoonRay, as open source software later this year. The studio’s state-of-the-art Monte Carlo Ray Tracer has ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

For two decades now, American computer-generated animated films have more or less followed a similar visual template. While their character designs aren’t necessarily hyper-realistic, everything else ...