Yep, the costs for a render farm can be a challenge. I'm interested in doing my own render farm service. A few things must occur for me first, though. Mostly right now I'm really involved with a programming project that's really taking all my time. Running my own Bryce render farm and setting it up for others to use it really interests me as I'm really getting more and more involved with computer clustering in a business sense. The thing about a Bryce farm, from what I see, right now it's gotta appeal to the hobbist (sp?). Which means, to me, dirt cheap. That also means to me it's gotta be financially supplimented by something else. No comment from me about animations.

Anyway, I'm very interested in this. My current farm is 7 computers out of 9. Works nice, but could be better. Anyway, more thoughts later.