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>We expect to see the code base grow stronger with community involvement as DreamWorks continues to demonstrate our commitment to open source Translation: we t

>We expect to see the code base grow stronger with community involvement as DreamWorks continues to demonstrate our commitment to open source Translation: we think making this open source will bring in significant outside contribution so we can get a better renderer with less investment ourselves while not having to pay external providers Open source is a good strategy for the runners up trying to compete, you get the good will from giving something away in exchange for other people improving your product for free.

ziddoap 4y ago
Why are you framing this in such a negative light? They open something up, let people use it, and hope that some people might contribute back. Cool, sounds great to me. They aren't forcing me to contribute back to the project. Seems pretty win-win.
- colechristensen 4y ago
  It’s clearly business, not self sacrifice. Your interpretation of that as negativity is a reflection of your own judgement not mine.
erichocean 4y ago
> runners up trying to compete MoonRay likely has the best volume rendering in the world, certainly that's open source. Only Weta's internal renderer is in the same league.
- berkut 4y ago
  Not necessarily: it would depend on what Dreamworks' requirements have been up to now as to the current state: obviously, they use volumetrics, but almost all their stuff is CG and not necessarily photo real, being more artistic-driven. That fact might have allowed them to take short-cuts. How do you know what Manuka's capable of? :)
  - mkaic 4y ago
    I'd guess that the volume rendering in MoonRay is pretty top notch considering Dreamworks was also responsible for creating OpenVDB. Furthermore, while their characters and environments are often stylized, watch a few minutes of How To Train Your Dragon 3 and you'll see their volumetric rendering is stunningly believable.
tpmx 4y ago
That's not how it works. What they're after is mindshare, establishing their codebase as a standard etc. You're not going to get a free work force just by open sourcing your very context-specific code. Most companies/people learned this ~22 years ago.

ziddoap 4y ago

Why are you framing this in such a negative light? They open something up, let people use it, and hope that some people might contribute back. Cool, sounds great to me. They aren't forcing me to contribute back to the project. Seems pretty win-win.

colechristensen 4y ago
It’s clearly business, not self sacrifice. Your interpretation of that as negativity is a reflection of your own judgement not mine.

erichocean 4y ago

> runners up trying to compete MoonRay likely has the best volume rendering in the world, certainly that's open source. Only Weta's internal renderer is in the same league.

berkut 4y ago
Not necessarily: it would depend on what Dreamworks' requirements have been up to now as to the current state: obviously, they use volumetrics, but almost all their stuff is CG and not necessarily photo real, being more artistic-driven. That fact might have allowed them to take short-cuts. How do you know what Manuka's capable of? :)
- mkaic 4y ago
  I'd guess that the volume rendering in MoonRay is pretty top notch considering Dreamworks was also responsible for creating OpenVDB. Furthermore, while their characters and environments are often stylized, watch a few minutes of How To Train Your Dragon 3 and you'll see their volumetric rendering is stunningly believable.

tpmx 4y ago

That's not how it works. What they're after is mindshare, establishing their codebase as a standard etc. You're not going to get a free work force just by open sourcing your very context-specific code. Most companies/people learned this ~22 years ago.