Animation and Render Farms

LeslieSOsborne

What resources and workflows can you recommend, first based on experience and second on research, for using online render farms with Daz Studio and Daz Carrara animations?

Veneris

I don't know. You can buy this: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007KGXY0K/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=2WCS13TJWZF93&coliid=I3VW74IRI6IC33

chickenman

I have used Carrara's render node option with no problem.
I have 3 computers in the house, an i7, a AMD quad core and an AMD 2 core.
I started teh render node program on both AMD's then started the i7 in Carrara.
I make sure that the network connectivity is solid with now errors and all the computers are using the same Database and content location to ensure there are not errors.
I then do a small test render to ensure it is working fine before I do a longer one.
I ensure the bucket size is set small so that no one is waiting for others to finish in this way the full power of all can be put to use.

I have also done this with the lux render as well.

it does speed up the rendering.

My i7 is liquid cooled and built specifically to run 24/7 for rendering.

Dream Cutter

Most on-line render foarms like "The Ranch" http://www.ranchcomputing.com/en/ use a render task manager like ButterFly Net Render to coordinate and provide a common interface.
http://www.liquiddreamsolutions.com/web5/index.php

http://pipelinefx.com/blog-2/pipelinefx-first-render-manager-to-support-autodesk-vred/

LeslieSOsborne

Thank you for the helpful replies to my original post.