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2020 has been an overwhelmingly crazy year for all of us.

One year ago when the pandemic was crazily torturing people around the world, Fox Renderfarm cared deeply about every staff and our friends worldwide. We’ve sent numerous masks to customers domestically and mailed packages of surgical masks to European and Asian countries including Spain, India, Malaysia, etc.

After that, Fox Renderfarm has tried our best time after time to support the community, concerning the artists especially those freelancers and those who work in SMEs may have been in huge difficulties due to the lack of both financial and rendering support to meet up their deadlines. Last April, we launched a Customer Care Program, providing over $88,000 to support our users worldwide. And in last August, GoCreation Program was initiated to assist freelancers with preferential rendering prices and subsidies. All these programs received praise and thanks from numerous artists. We learned that no one is fighting alone in the community, only by holding our hands together can we get through the crisis, grow and prosper.

The pandemic rages, yet it can never suffocate vigor and vitality. The economic consequences need time to alleviate, what’s more pivotal, the wounded souls need more artistic and creative expressions to heal.

Fox Renderfarm has contemplated what more we can do to make your projects “come true” with a fast and easy rendering experience while enjoying the greatest and the most cost-effective cloud rendering services. So we push the boundary once again. We have decided to launch Evergreen Program to benefit more individual artists and SMEs. However, we might not be able to make it for a very long time.

Grab the chance, and let’s grow together!

Rules:

For every new user*

1. Any new user whose first top-up is equal to/ above $10 and under $100 will get a $15 render coupon.
2. Any new user whose first top-up is equal to/ above $100 and under $2000 will get a $30 render coupon, and also a 90-day Gold Membership, which is 20% off for CPU rendering, and 30% off for GPU rendering.
3. Any new user whose first top-up is equal to/ above $2,000 will get a $30 render coupon, and Gold, Platinum or Diamond membership accordingly. The more you recharge, the more you save, you can save up to 50%.
4. All users will follow the regular membership scheme according to the accumulated recharge amount after the 90 days.
5. All the coupons offered will be validated before 12/ 31/ 2021.
6. Fox Renderfarm reserves the rights to alter, amend or add these conditions at any time without prior notice.

*New User: User registered in 2021 who is ready to accomplish the first top-up.

Coupons and membership will be automatically offered after top-up. We will inform you about any changes concerning the Evergreen program in our multi-channel network, including our website, blog, newsletter and social media platforms.

Fox Renderfarm would like to thank all the artists who strive and contribute relentlessly in the darkest time. Let’s hold our hands tighter until the sun shines every corner again.

Alfa Romeo is a company with a long history in the automobile and motorsport industry. As a huge car lover, Jason Raptopoulos, the 3rd place winner of Hum3D Car Render Challenge 2020, chose a rare model of Alfa Romeo that few will know of as his inspiration.

Alfa Romeo G1

A hidden treasure © Iasonas Raptopoulos

Made with 3ds Max, Substance Painter, Marvelous Designer, Adobe Photoshop and After Effects, the project took Jason about one and a half months, which brings a feeling of warmth and nostalgia. Let’s find out how he made the beautiful 3D artwork in the exclusive interview with the best cloud rendering service provider, Fox Renderfarm.

• Jason Raptopoulos (Iasonas Raptopoulos)
• 3D artist / Generalist
• Greece

Fox Renderfarm: Hi, Jason, could you give us a brief introduction about yourself?

Jason: Hi! My name is Jason Raptopoulos, I am 34 years old, I live in Greece and, specifically, in Athens. I have been meddling with computers since a very young age and for some years now, with photography too. At the age of 27, I graduated from SAE Athens’ 3D animation course and I have been working as a 3D generalist ever since. I love my job and I enjoy discovering new techniques which, later on, I apply on my projects.

Fox Renderfarm: Congratulations on winning 3rd place in the Car Render Challenge 2020, how do you feel about it?

Jason: Thank you very much. In a word...excited! At first, when the results came out I could not believe it. Haha. Learning that my project, in which I invested a sizable amount of time creating, stood amongst the top 3 qualifiers was a huge satisfaction for me.

Fox Renderfarm: What’s the idea behind your artwork 'A hidden treasure'?

Jason: Prior to the beginning of the project’s creation I had plotted a story in my mind from which I did not want to deviate.

My goal was whoever viewed my project to feel very emotional and nostalgic but without the need to include human presence. I wanted it implied. These were the thoughts behind the descriptive text that accompanied my project at hum3d.

An Alfa Romeo G1 1921 model, stored in a barn where its owner used to take care of. For reasons unknown, though, he had to stop.

Fox Renderfarm: The car render shows your great level of modeling and texturing. Any references and how did you make it?

Jason: 3ds Max was utilized for the creation of about 90% of the project. This includes the modeling of the scene, the car, the props and all of the scene’s materials. An interesting fact is that the car has been designed entirely using photos found on the Internet. Unfortunately, no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to acquire any blueprints for the specific model.

Also, Substance Painter was used for the basic "dusty" look of the car. But, in the end, the material was evolved through 3ds Max.

Fox Renderfarm: This render has so many details with all the tools, the dust on the old racing car and the light falling in the old barn, which make it look very nostalgic. How did you make them?

Jason: I started the creation of the project with an image, a first draft if you will, in my mind in which I had given greater emphasis to the front part of the car, where the light would shed, in a tighter frame. But, while proceeding with the project, that image shifted and I decided to open up the frame a little bit in order to show a further view of the barn and, also, more elements in the scene.. At first, I started with the basic geometries of the barn, the “camera’s” angle and a source of the light too. I used Clay mode in realtime rendering in order to decide where to locate the source of the light. So, by using lots of references, I designed each element, studied their “behavior” when they age and that is when I met a huge challenge. To recreate them in the best way possible. As I have already mentioned, the whole scene was created from scratch using 3ds Max and I also used Redshift as a rendering engine. Pflow was utilized for the dust in the air, the general scene’s lighting is managed by a HDRI dome map and there has been one more light used so as to emphasize the volumetric light on the car.

Fox Renderfarm: Which part of this work are you most satisfied with and why?

Jason: Mostly, with the car itself. But I don’t think that I could say that there is something in the whole project that I am not satisfied with. Maybe I could have spent some more time refining the resulting version of the ground. But as it is natural I was always more focused on the main subject of the project, the car, to which I spent the most time designing and detail-refining. The second most important aspect of my project is the lighting which was heavily altered from my original idea trying to manipulate and create this nostalgic atmosphere.

Fox Renderfarm: Did you encounter any difficulties when creating the artwork? And how did you solve it?

Jason: Of course, as anyone does, but…I didn’t solve it! Haha. To be honest, my greatest encounter was the rendering time (during trials) and in order to overcome this I needed new equipment. lol. When someone gets the rendering results quicker, they can notice and improve their mistakes a lot faster.

On a more technical note, I devoted a big part of my time to the designing and refinement of the ground. I met technical difficulties with Displacemaps and, ultimately, I am not so satisfied with the result.

Also, as any designer would agree, one of the slowest aspects, from a creative point of view, of the process is the pre-designing stage, the research for the history of the model and the drafting of a working plan.

But after the first steps have been taken, everything gets in a flow finally.

Fox Renderfarm: Could you briefly tell us your educational and work experience along your CG journey?

Jason: In 2013 I decided to enroll in SAE Athens’ 3D Animation course and since 2015 that I graduated I have been employed by or collaborated with various companies. For the last two and a half years I have been working in an animation studio in Greece (Kent-Films, pixelfarm.gr) as a 3D generalist with a specialty in lighting and shading.

Pannacotta CGI © Iasonas Raptopoulos

Fox Renderfarm: How do you enhance your professional skills?

Jason: I keep trying to discover and experiment with new software and techniques all the time and my goal is to apply those on my projects (if each project’s special conditions and schedule allow it). Social media is the ideal tool to keep track of all the field’s news, learn about new software from companies and, if someone participates in groups or fora, there they will find an endless “library” of knowledge in addition to discussions and queries of colleagues.

Alfa Romeo Giulia in Iceland © Iasonas Raptopoulos

Fox Renderfarm: Anything else you would like to share with CG enthusiasts?

Jason: Above all, in order to have highly creative results we must love what we do. We must always try to discover and meddle with new techniques and never rush to deliver a project. Details (even small ones) are what make a project stand out.

Airbus A320neo © Iasonas Raptopoulos

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クラウドレンダーファームは結構ありますが、どれを選ぶか常に迷う可能性があります。 アジア最大のオンラインレンダーファームとしてFox Renderfarmをおすすめの理由は以下のとおりです。

Fox Renderfarmは、24時間サポート、OSCARのサポートチーム、大規模なレンダーマシン、ハリウッドのセキュリティを備えた強力なレンダーファームです。

経験豊富なサポートチームは、すでに世界中の何百ものプロジェクトをサポートしていました。

Fox Renderfarmのサポート部門にはCG業界で20年以上の経験を持つスタッフによる優れたテクニカルチームがあります。 チームメンバーは、ディズニー、ルーカス、ドリームワークス、ソニーピクチャーズなどでの製作経験者で様々な局面で適切なアドバイスを行うことができます。このようなプロのサービスと業界をリードする革新的なチームによって、50カ国以上の主要なVFX会社とアニメーションスタジオをサポートしています。 Fox Renderfarmは、2015年にAlibaba Group（NYSE：BABA）と、2018年にLegend Capitalとグローバルな戦略的ビジネスパートナーシップを形成し、グローバルなビジュアルクラウドコンピューティングサービスを提供しています。

強力で安全なレンダーファームサービス

Fox RenderfarmはRayvisionの海外向けのクラウドレンダーファームです。Fox Renderfarmは業界をリードするクラウドレンダーファームの1つです。

2011年以来、Fox Renderfarmは、その高品質のパフォーマンス、厳格なセキュリティ保護、優れたカスタマーサービス、柔軟な価格設定で高い評価を得ています。

カスタマイズレンダリングソリューション

クラウドレンダーファームの利点

最高の強力なクラウドレンダーファームサービス

プロジェクト向けの強力なクラウドレンダーファーム

1. 高速転送技術Raysyncを使用して超高速のファイル転送
2. プラットホームは、Windows、Mac、およびLinuxに対応
3. ほぼ、100%の稼働率を誇る高いファーム稼働率
4. 米国TPN認定のクラウドサービスです

5. I / Oでの速度低下を回避するためにSSDストレージを採用

   対応しているソフトウェアとプラグイン

Fox Renderfarmは、主流のCGソフトウェアとプラグインのほとんどを対応しています。

柔軟なクラウドレンダーファームの価格

プロのカスタマーサービス＆技術サポートチーム

Fox Renderfarmのプロのカスタマーサービス＆技術サポートチームはお待ちしております！

Fox Renderfarmは、セキュリティ面では万全の備えをしています

Fox Renderfarmでレンダリングされた作品の一部

Fox Renderfarm本当に最高のレンダリングファームであるかどうか疑問に思われるかもしれません。試してみて頂くとすぐにわかります。

Fox Renderfarm has reached another milestone in the year 2019. With the relentless efforts and commitment to build a more secure cloud render farm that better protect the privacy of our beloved customers, Fox Renderfarm has successfully completed MPAA’s Content Security Best Practices and officially become a TPN Trusted Partner!

What is TPN?

Trusted Partner Network (TPN) is a joint venture between two major entertainment industry giants, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA), the worldwide leaders in third-party entertainment industry assessments. MPAA is a non-profit American trade association with the goal of promoting effective copyright protection, reducing piracy, and expanding market access. While, CDSA, is the international content protection association that protect entertainment media throughout the supply chain, both pre and post release. As one of the most authoritative film and TV content protection corporation, TPN assessment is well acknowledged by conglomerates like Walt Disney Studios, Universal City Studios, Warner Bros., Netflix Studios and so forth.

Why do we need TPN?

Content and data security have always been a global concern in the movie and TV industry, especially after a serial high-profile pre-release leaks in 2017. Those included the theft and release of “Orange Is the New Black” season 5 episodes from an audio post-production firm and an episode from “Game of Thrones” season 7 that was traced to employees at a data-management vendor working with 21st Century Fox’s Star India. The hacking nightmare continued after Netflix refused to pay the requested ransom. The hacker group The Dark Overlord uploaded much of “Orange Is the New Black” Season 5 online through illegal file-sharing service and kept posting arrogant and even scolding messages online. Huge damage was caused to Hollywood’s major production studios and to the health of the whole industry.

Trusted Partner Network (TPN) is a new, global, industry-wide film and television content protection initiative. The TPN program helps companies prevent leaks, breaches, and hacks of their customers’ movies and television shows prior to their intended release and seeks to raise security awareness, preparedness, and capabilities within the industry. It functions as a global clearinghouse that will set security standards for entertainment production and distribution companies. Partners who pass an independent assessment conforming to those industry best practices will be listed as “trusted partners” in the TPN directory.

“Creating the films and television shows enjoyed by audiences around the world increasingly requires a network of specialized vendors and technicians,” MPAA chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said in a statement. “That’s why maintaining high security standards for all third-party operations — from script to screen — is such an important part of preventing the theft of creative works and ultimately protects jobs and the health of our vibrant creative economy.”

How does TPN work?

The TPN assessment process is highly rigorous with detailed security requirements on the physical security, asset management, content life-cycle, enterprise security, risk assessment, vulnerability management, security operations and incident response, policy & procedures, human resources processes, and most importantly, infrastructure. Moreover, the assessed Vendors are required to do the annual re-assessment every year to continuously improve the security system to better meet the TPN assessment standards. The assessment reports are shared within the TPN platform and can also be shared with existing and potential customers at the vendor’s discretion.

Fox Renderfarm x TPN

Fox Renderfarm’s mission is to be the best cloud render farm with powerful render capacity, thoughtful customer service, secure data protection and flexible pricing scheme.

“Your governance program (i.e. Management System) was impressive. It was very thorough from a policy and procedure perspective,” Mr. James Bourne, TPN Assessor, commented, “Fox Renderfarm has adopted and implemented the MPAA’s Content Security Best Practices with precision...you are now TPN Accredited.”

As a TPN-accredited Partner, Fox Renderfarm will persist its steps to enhance the cloud rendering solutions to be more customer-friendly and also be one of the safest.

Recently, Fox Renderfarm, a leading cloud render farm service provider, has published its company introduction video, here is the video,

Fox Renderfarm is Rayvision’s overseas cloud render farm service. It is one of the leading cloud render farms in the industry. Since 2009, Fox Renderfarm has earned a good reputation for its quality performance, strict security protection great customer service and flexible pricing scheme.

Fox Renderfarm, your powerful render farm with 24 Hours support, OSCAR service team, massive render nodes, and Hollywood security. Their experienced technical team has already supported hundreds of projects around the world.

Fox Renderfarm has an outstanding team with over 20 years of CG production experience. Team members are from Disney, Lucasfilm, Dream works, Sony, etc. With professional services and industry-leading innovations, they serve leading special effects companies and animation studios from over 50 countries, including two Oscar winners.

In 2015, Fox Renderfarm has formed a global strategic partnership with Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud Computing) to provide global visual cloud computing services. Welcome to try our platform and enjoy our services.

There are a lot of cloud render farm, and you may be always confused which one to spend your money at. Here are the reasons why you should choose Fox Renderfarm as your best online render farm.

Fox Renderfarm, your powerful render farm with 24 Hours support, OSCAR service team, massive render nodes, and Hollywood security.

Their experienced technical team has already supported hundreds of projects around the world.

Fox Renderfarm has an outstanding team with over 20 years of CG production experience. Team members are from Disney, Lucasfilm, Dream works, Sony, etc. With professional services and industry-leading innovations, they serve leading special effects companies and animation studios from over 50 countries, including two Oscar winners.

Fox Renderfarm formed a global strategic business partnership with Alibaba Group(NYSE: BABA) in 2015, and Legend Capital in 2018 respectively to provide global visual cloud computing services.

Powerful & Secure Render Farm Service

Fox Renderfarm is a leading cloud rendering service provider in the industry. Since the operation in 2011, Fox Renderfarm has earned a good reputation for its quality performance, great customer service, and flexible pricing scheme. To build a more secure cloud render farm that better protects the privacy of our beloved customers, Fox Renderfarm has successfully completed MPAA’s Content Security Best Practices and officially become a TPN Trusted Partner!

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Powerful Cloud Render Farm for Project Submission

1. No software installation needed, freely submit a project at any time, anywhere.

2. Available to use on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

3. The rendering service availability is up to 99.99%.

4. Refers to MPAA security standards.

5. Possesses a massive SSD storage system to solve the I/O bottleneck.

Supported Software & Plugins

Fox Renderfarm supports most of the mainstream CG software and plugins.

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Fox Renderfarm's professional and dedicated customer service & technical support team are waiting for you!

Fox Renderfarm is Absolutely  Secure& Confidential for Customers

Parts of projects rendered with Fox Renderfarm

Well, you might still wonder if their platform is really the best render farm, then just have a free trial, you will know the answer right away.

There are still 18 days from the end of 2018. This year, Fox Renderfarm has achieved a good goal in film and animation works rendering. Below is a collection video of some of the animations and film works that we participated in.

The names of the works played in the video are:

• Shadow
• Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings
• Legend of Fu Yao
• Detective Chinatown II
• Wolf Warrior 2
• Ten great III of peach blossom
• Baahubali: The Beginning
• L.O.R.D (Legend of Ravaging Dynasties)
• The Wind Guardians
• Monkey Magic
• Duck Duck Goose
• Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink
• Fights Break Sphere
• Boonie Bears: Entangled Worlds

The above is just a list of some of the works we have rendered until 2018. If you want to know more details, you can visit our Customer page. As the largest render farm in Asia, we are constantly being recognized by our customers. More and more users are using our render farm, which gives us a good evaluation of our services and platforms.

Here's our evaluation at SIGGRAPH Vancouver 2018, one of the interview participants who used a number of render farms for multiple companies in the cloud rendering industry, if you don't know how to choose which render farm to cooperate, you can see the following video for your reference:

Fox Renderfarm has always focused on the cloud rendering services of film and video, we are good at summing up the real needs of users, and constantly follow the footsteps of users to improve our products, in order to give users a better cloud rendering service.

Fox Renderfam's render farm currently supports GPU and CPU rendering, a company that is rare in the cloud rendering industry to support both services. At the same time, we have thousands of rendering nodes, users can upload and render in real-time. This is also the advantage that we are different from others, and one of the reasons why many users like to use us.

We know that many enterprises encounter many headaches in the transmission of large files, such as video, the transmission speed is too slow, and the file transmission process is afraid of interception, loss and other accidents. Also, it is cost a lot of time when the file transfer process be interrupted, that means you should transfer again.

In response to the above problems, we have developed a large file transfer tool for users to choose, using a second to increase the transmission speed by 100 times. Moreover, our own render farm also has the application of this technology, which ensures that users can quickly complete the uploading of the work to be rendered and download, which greatly saves time.