How much time will I save with a render farm?
In the film and animation industry, we call the Cluster a "render farm". Many network management technicians like to call "cluster computing systems", and industry insiders prefer to call it "render farm."
As users have higher and higher requirements for the quality of CG projects, the demand for local machine configuration upgrades is getting higher and higher. At the same time, higher and higher quality CG projects mean that rendering also requires a lot of time. This is especially true for individual users. The higher the quality of the final image, the longer the rendering time, which is also the most time-consuming step in production.
So, how much time can we save if we use an online render farm for rendering project? Will work efficiency be improved?
These amazing details of Toy Story 4 also require an amazing amount of rendering to achieve
The first thing to understand is that rendering speed is closely related to the production of files and computer hardware. The larger the file or the more special effects, the slower the rendering will be. Computer hardware can increase speed slightly with files of the same size. Or you can optimize the production file or use some other tools to improve the rendering speed. Pixar used a noise reduction software in Toy Story 4 and cut the rendering time in half.
Take an interior design work as an example. If you want to render a picture with a resolution of 6000X4500, the rendering time of a personal computer is about 6 to 10 hours. If you use an online render farm, you may only need 1 or 2 hours or even less.
And if the computer freezes or errors when rendering for a long time, the previous rendering time may be wasted.
Is render farms much faster than personal computers?
Why is it much faster than a personal computer? After the user uploads the file to the render farm, the system will assign a task to multiple servers to work at the same time. The same configuration of 10 or 100 machines renders at the same time, which is naturally much faster than a computer. So it can be assumed that a 10-second special effects shot takes 10 hours for a local single machine rendering. If 10 machines are used for rendering, then the rendering time becomes 1 / 10th of an hour, which is 1 hour. If 100 machines are used for rendering it can be rendered in less than 10 minutes.
It can call a large number of machines in a short time, and it seems that only the render farm can complete it. So do you now know how much time a render farm can save you? If you still don't know how much time you can try to use our render farm calculator to make a rough estimate, the more accurate method is to use our render farm for submission calculations. Welcome to get a $25 free trial.
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