DreamWorks Animation deployed MoonRay, its in-house production renderer, across all of its recent feature films including How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Kung Fu Panda 4, The Wild Robot, and The Bad Guys 2. MoonRay includes AI-powered denoising that cleans up visual noise in rendered images, allowing artists to see near-final quality results faster during production.

MoonRay is a Monte Carlo ray-tracing renderer developed internally at DreamWorks and used on all recent feature films. It incorporates GPU render denoising via Intel's Open Image Denoise, an AI-based image processing tool that removes noise artifacts from partially rendered frames, allowing artists to work with lower sample counts and faster iteration times. MoonRay was first used on the short film Bilby in 2018, made its feature debut on How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World in 2019, and was open-sourced by DreamWorks in March 2023 under an Apache 2.0 license. It remains in active internal use at DreamWorks and was used on The Wild Robot (2024) and The Bad Guys 2.