Name: BoF: From Origins To Open Source: The Journey of DreamWorks Animation's Production Path Tracer, MoonRay - Randy Packer, DreamWorks Animation
Start: 2025-06-23T17:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-23T18:30:00-0600

June 23 - 25, 2025
Denver, Colorado
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Monday June 23, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT

Bluebird Ballroom 3A

MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation's open-source production rendering engine, used to create memorable imagery from movies such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, The Wild Robot, the upcoming Bad Guys 2 and future titles.

We’ll talk about MoonRay’s origins as an experiment and its foundation for rendering-as-a-service in animated and non-animated content, stylized and photoreal, to its current use as the core production renderer for the feature film studio pipeline at DreamWorks Animation.

After diving into MoonRay’s use at the studio, we’ll present our path to open-sourcing MoonRay, the goals and challenges to launch that, the experiences gained since launch, what it means for DreamWorks, and where we see the potential for the open source community to embrace it and its future in animation, vfx, simulation, visualization, and more.

Speakers

Randy Packer

Sr. Manager, Production Software, DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Animation

Randy is sr. manager of rendering, shading and machine learning teams at DreamWorks, having started in 2015 as his first foray into the animation and the film industry. Randy's led the efforts of advancing MoonRay and it's feature set and related technologies since prior to it's usage... Read More →

Monday June 23, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 3A

Wildcard, Open Source Leadership

Audience Experience Level Beginner

Open Source Summit North America 2025

Randy Packer

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