How do you Render?

I don’t know how many people suffer from rendering, but I do. I recently got another machine so that I could render stuff on the other machines so as not to tie up my main computer. And It got me to thinking about how other people do it. How many of you guys outsource your stuff to be rendered. Is there any blender renderfarms out there?

Well anyway it got me to thinking about starting my own little renderfarm for you blenderheads out there, as a kind of hobby project thing. Would people pay for a service like that? or did I just ask a really dumb question. Or would having some of the service free and some of it paid.

really like to know what people think about renderfarms.

Other people:

  • are just very patient
  • learn Arabic or another foreign language while waiting for their render
  • let their computers render at night
  • don’t set ray-tracing, photonlights, GI, OSA, radiosity and motionblur to the maximum
  • use a lot of tricks to bring down render times

On renderfarms:
Rendering one image across multiple PC’s
Internet distributed rendering (Burp)
Commercial renderfarm: ResPower

yeah I saw those. I’m leaning more to the xgrid method of shareing the load.

http://www.atpm.com/10.06/blender.shtml
http://www.blenderxgrid.com/howto.html