Hiring A Render Farm

#1

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking into hiring a render farm to handle long animations and increasing amount of work. I’d love to get a better idea about the process from people that have used this kind of service before.

How safe and reliable are render farms?

How is the experience with this service in regards to your your work flow? How are all the libraries/RPC/render assets/Proxies are used? Do you have to archive the whole thing for every render test and upload it?

Also, any recommendations for render farms you’ve worked before?

I’m taking a closer look at renderflow but I can’t understand their pricing calculation.
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Was wondering if you can help me out. I don’t quite understand how to you [color=#fffffe]RenderFlow’s calculator. http://www.renderflow.com/home/ At the bottom of their web page.

When I inputed 1xCore 2.8ghz 1600frames 13 minutes (est of how long each frame will take for the interior scene) I then press calculate and under RenderFlow, it says 2.4hours and 72.80Euros.

However, when I keep everything the same and lower the giga hertz to 2.6 it = 2.3 hours and 67.60 Euros. Surely, at lower giga hertz it will render slower NOT faster.

Can you help me to figure this out?
[/color][/color]Many thanks guys,

Plas

#2

Sorry for the delay in responding but just saw the post.
The data says the budget is correct. The 1600 frames would cost € 72.80.
The reason for reducing the budget and time in the event that your machine is slower because the work would be faster to make.
We do not support RPC library to be licensing. Privacy is guaranteed because the control console is activated by digital certificate and the client works directly with render nodes without human intervention.
The easiest way is to register and test the balance of free 200ghz we give to the register.
You can test the lighting lookup routines, working in bands for grades scenes or jointly sent by batch.

Regards

Rodrigo Medinilla
RenderFlow Support

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