Here is a must read article from the fxguide about all the render engines and the benefits of each one that I would like to share with you.

Scott Metzger jokes that one can’t talk about renderers without annoying someone. “Renderers are like religion (laughs). Rendering is a religion! Especially now in this era, which is really really exciting, there is so much going on and there are so many renderers, so much happening. To me it is the most exciting part of being in our industry right now.”

As Dana Batali, Vice President of RenderMan products at Pixar commented to fxguide at an earlier Siggraph, “Rendering drives the largest computational budget of getting the pixels to the screen.” He pointed out at that time ‘sims’ (physical sims like cloth etc) were only about 5% of most film’s computation budgets. Since rendering dominates render farms one cannot devote as much effort to perfect light simulations in a render as you can to a destruction simulation in just perhaps one shot.

Renderers are easy to write in the abstract, as perhaps a university project, but to work in production environments is extremely difficult. Arnold, by Solid Angle, is some 200,000 lines of highly optimized C++ code, and it is considered a very direct implementation without a lot of hacks or tricks. Production requirements in terms of rendertime and scene complexity are staggering. And the problem is not just contained to final render time, as Arnold founder Marcos Fajardo pointed out at Siggraph 2010 – final render CPU time might cost $0.10 per hour, but artist time is closer to $40 an hour, so interactivity is also vital.

This leads to the heart of rendering: picking the best approach that will get the results looking as good as possible, in the time you have, and more precisely picking which attributes of an image – be it complex shading, complex motion blur, sub-surface scattering or some other light effects should be your priority – which ones will play in your shot, and which attributes need to be more heavily compromised.

Rendering is an art of trying to cheat compromises.

Say hello to your new render farm!!

It has thousands of processors, no need to plug anything in, install any software, or worry about keeping your eyes’ running. It’s hot, it’s happening, it’s evolving and we are sure glad to be deep into it!! Yes, it’s Fox Render Farm!!

We firmly believe Fox will change how you use your PCs or other super dearly expensive render farms to complete your jobs and we hope to contribute to that change.

Recently there were some artists who are interested to our farm came to consult the same doubt: How does Fox manager their farm without using the Pipeline. What a nice question! But based on the important private technology of our independent system, I didn’t tell them how can we make it by not using the leading intelligent cloud render management software.:P

I guess you guys all known, the software they mentioned provides software, support, consulting and training services worldwide. Their users across film and visual effects,post production, broadcast, design, games and education. However, Fox has its own independent developed management system. Let me say that in this way, Fox Renderfarm is a high-quality self service platform with  absorption of the advantage of those main trending render farm and independent humanized characteristics.

• Here shows 10 reasons why choose Fox:

◢ Submit files online with ease and real-time preview.
◢ Intelligent recognition of the version and renderer of scene file.
◢ Automatic detection of any missing textures and cache files.
◢ The cache files’ paths will be reset automatically.
◢ The scene files’ settings will be analysed automatically.
◢ 24/7 service provided.
◢ Real-time notifications of rendering tasks via email or SMS.
◢ The render time and charges will be calculated automatically.
◢ Automatically load plug-ins according to the scene files needs.
◢ Render result can be downloaded automatically.

It is your personal, on-demand, scalable render farm. With Fox Render Farm you will have as much rendering power as you need, for as long as you need it, and you will only pay for how much you use. We are confident that the quality of FoxRenderfarm will speak for itself and convince many new users of its power, reliability, and industry leading technology, once they become familiar with it.

Well, we started for real, there are some glitches to fix on the website (and possibly in the system)
More to be expected soon, stay tuned.