Ira Krakow's Free Blender 3D Render Farm Tutorial

[itman131313]

kool koool

[SauronsEye]

Have a look at Renderfarm.fi. It's an add on in Blender 2.5. You do need to down load stuff from the Renderfarm.fi's site and BOINC to make it work.

There is also a pretty comprehensive explanation of what Renderfarm.fi is at the Blender conference 2010.

Got to, "RenderfarmFI", on Youtube and look for the video titled, "Blender Conference 2010 - sunday - 10"

As you can tell from their close involvement with Blender, highly supported by Blender.

[JustWonderingHowToDo]

If one was to build a rendernode for blender and using farmerjoe, would a Intel Quad core processor (ex. Q9550) be a good choice, i mean does the software take fully advantage of the four cores?

[dmftt]

is Blender FREE?

[molbal]

@dmftt Yes, absolutely! =]

[RunningLemonStudios]

I just wanted to say that I've been using loki render for my render farm and it works much better than anything else I know of.

You install it on all the computers, start it up, click either master, grunt or both, and they all find each other. By far the best option I've come across. A google search will take you to the website. It's free too :D

[justinford10jf]

Use of render farms shouldn't be just restricted to large studios and 3D artists. Smaller studios have their own render farms and many freelance artists have them as well. Compositors and freelance motion-graphics artists can also make use of them. Some editing systems support the use of additional machines called render nodes to accelerate rendering, and this type of setup can be extended to architectural visualization and even digital audio workstations.for more info google out renderrocket.

[RagingBubuli]

Nice Info

[ThePsycho24]

1:50 how can i make a shared folder?

[blenderguy2008]

That's a great tip. May be it is worthy to mention that besides the permissions on the shared folder, we also need to map the drive so we can choose the Output Folder ( Mapped drive) . ( Explorer>tools>mapdrive ,select a letter and select the shared folder )

You have a bunch of great tutorials here. Worthy to spend some time learning from them. 5/5!

[richmeister4eva]

i would use this but i have a quad core and all of my other pcs are shitty dual and single cores :'(

[AdamEtheredge]

Thanks for posting this one, Ira. GREAT advice. Although my first animations have been pretty short and simple, and although I recently upgrading to a screaming quad machine, I'm pretty ambitious about my future animation work, so I've worried about render times. So I'm glad you posted on this. Also, a Tube friend of mine, SebastianKoch wrote me that he has a new renderfarm. Sebastian writes:" We have started a free community render farm for rendering animations. Search google for vswarm"

[irakrakow]

@AdamEtheredge That's great. Please post this at the Blender 3D forum so that we can get the word out.

[AdamEtheredge]

@irakrakow Alright I will. I was hoping someone would take a look and see how it is. I've never used a renderfarm before...

[buildBaseline78]

just use loki render. it's by far the easiest blender render farm app I've used. You don't have to mess with a windows share or anything.

[mikh3x4]

the blender/shared folder thing works only with jpg form each frame to movie dont work

[a2zhandi]

This is good to know. Although I have not arrived at a situation where I have extremely long renders.

A big drawback other than render times is file size.

I once had a 30 second clip which took a few gig space :0

Thanks for sharing.

[halcek83]

the method by using shared folder doesnt work. simply blender cant access files by lan network :(

[graywolf104]

If I understand correctly, you still need access to spare machines to use Farmerjoe. Farmerjoe doens't provide access to an online renderfarm itself - the software will split a rendering job across spare PCs on your own network.

[irakrakow]

That sounds correct.

[jamesyoun]

@graywolf104

Yes you are corrent, Farmerjoe still requires you have spare PCs networked together. Krakow made it seem like it was an online service.

FYI, I use farmerjoe at the office here and it works very well.

[BroBryce2009]

This is so great a resource. I've shared your stuff on the Movie Edit Pro users group. I am planning this year to start studying your work to master Blender so I can start doing some 3D work.

[irakrakow]

Thank you for sharing :). I wish you best wishes for success in your studies.  Tell us how you're doing.

[DrHavanger]

i use my networked computers to render a range of frames and same them in a shared drive

[irakrakow]

How much faster was it than using just one computer?

[DrHavanger]

i don't know exactly, but i imagine it was twice as fast to have my three computers (1.6, 1.8, 2.8 ghz) then to just have one do it. i really appreciate your videos Ira, keep them coming!

[irakrakow]

It's absolutely amazing that we have this kind of power right at our fingertips. We can really express our creativity and broadcast it to the world, as the Youtube slogan says.