6 Ways to Render Faster in Blender

As a Blender artist, there may be sometimes that you struggle with a long rendering time of your project. Maybe over 48 hours, you couldn't do anything as your computer is occupied with such stuff.  But don’t spend too much time on it, you should just go ahead and find some ways to make faster your rendering time. While there are top rendering software, a cloud render farm might be a better option right now. Thus, the top render farm in the CG industry, Fox Renderfarm partners with YouTuber Extra 3D, who makes useful Blender tutorials for his audiences, to bring you some tips to cut down your Blender rendering time. Let’s go!

Blender default render time

6 Ways to Reduce Blender Render Time

1. Changing Blender Default Render Settings
2. Using a Powerful Render Farm
3. Rendering the Moving Part
4. Upscaling
5. Optimizing Materials
6. Hiding Objects Not in the Camera

Changing Blender Default Render Settings

First, change the render  device to GPU and make the Noise Threshold to 0.5 or 0.1 

After that go down in Light Paths and change the Total value in Max Bounces to something lower, like 8, which depends on your project. Then enable the Persistent Data option, so that it won't calculate the textures data for every frame. Enable the Use Spatial Splits option too, which also helps a lot.

Blender render time with new settings

Using a Powerful Render Farm

A render farm must be a top option if you have enough budget. Fox Renderfarm support Blender rendering and its render engines as well. It is based on a pay-as-you-go model, so you can spend money on the knife edge. Both CPU rendering & GPU rendering are available and there is a $25 free render coupon for every new user.

Blender render time after using a render farm

Rendering the Moving Part

If there are static cameras and objects in your scene, don't render them out for each frame.  You can use Control plus B to render the part which is moving and animated. Make sure you change the render location and render the background in one frame. Then open a new file, add your images like, and use an alpha over and connect them. Finally, render the animation again.

Upscaling

You can render it in low quality and upscale it by using AI software. The author doesn't go far with it, so let's skip to the next part.

Optimizing Materials

Optimizing materials is also a suggestion. You can download more efficient or lightweight materials from the author or the free 3D assets website.

Hiding Objects Not in the Camera

If everything within the scene is being calculated, then the rendering time will be slower. You may find some objects that aren't in the camera, and those are the ones that need to be hidden.

Check out how to speed up Blender render time by watching this video:

Summary

After reading the article, now you must get a deep understanding of Blender rendering. As a leading cloud rendering service provider, Fox Renderfarm stands in the way of shortening Blender render time. Try fast rendering with our $25 free render coupon now!