[ale] Blender Render Farm for amateurs.

[Charles Shapiro]

Ooh, I'd come to a Blender talk.

I'm currently using ArtOfIllusion ( http://artofillusion.org ) for making
3d print objects. I looked at Blender way back in 2009 or so, but it was
very intimidating and maybe overkill for what I am trying to do.

Just got First Print on a Folgertech Prusa Mendel I3 last weekend, so I am
back in the 3d printing game.

-- CHS


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Jim Kinney <jkinney at jimkinney.us> wrote:

> Blender is an amazing tool! Add in it's solidly open source and that makes
> it even better.
>
> It is, however, very intimidating.
>
> Any chance of someone giving a talk on blender for beginners? ALE central
> has a 65" 4k tv for display :-)
>
> On March 18, 2016 8:51:32 AM EDT, Jason van Gumster <
> fweeb at monsterjavaguns.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I made a huge mistake today and installed Blender. Someone posted a picture
>>>  to FB labeled "How many girls in this picture? I don't have wall size mirrors
>>>  so I installed Blender and recreated the scene. I'm now playing with it. My
>>>  last foray into this was with 3D Studio and others back in 94.
>>>
>>>  My conclusion that CPUs are so fast now that render times have dropped is
>>>  wrong. The scenes have just scaled with resources. I used to start a render,
>>>  go to work, and come home to see a beautiful 640x480 picture. 1920x1080 today
>>>  is going to be just as painful.
>>>
>>>  "Surely there is a service that does this for me" came to my head and sure
>>>  enough, I found many links for render farms.
>>>
>>>  Are there any that are cos
>>>  t
>>> effective for someone just goofing off?
>>>
>>
>> Welcome to the world of Blender!
>>
>> When it comes to farming out your renders, I'd say you have three primary
>> options:
>>
>>   * Sheep It (https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com) - this is a distributed farm,
>>     kind of like SETI at home for rendering. I have some friends who speak very
>>     highly of it.
>>
>>   * Renderbot (http://renderbot.net) - You build your own renderfarm on the fly
>>     using EC2 instances on AWS. I've considered this a couple of times, but
>>     never quite pulled the trigger on it.
>>
>>   * RenderStreet (https://render.st) - Render Street isn't free, but it's very
>>     affordable. They even give you a free trial run to start with (so if you
>>     just have a few things you need to render, it's essentially free). Their
>>
>> service is great and they're really the first place I turn to when I'm
>>     rendering on a deadline.
>>
>> You can also get really far by optimizing your render options (this is true
>> whether you're rendering with Cycles or the older 'Blender Internal' renderer).
>> Feel free to ping me if you have any questions regarding Blender. I'm happy to
>> spend time talking about it.
>>
>>   -Jason
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