Hey Guys,

  I was just wondering if anyone has used this renderfarm site for Carrara to render out animations .  I am just trying to see if he provides a reliable service to Carrara animators as someone asked me about a Carrara Renderfarm service and didn't have much information to give him.   Any insight on this website or other renderfarms for carrara would be appreciated

http://www.small-render-farm.com/

Thanks,

Mike

Hi Mike,

I've emailed back and forth with him a several times over the last 12-18 months. However, I haven't had a Carrara based project that I'd send his way for a test yet. The payment service doesn't seem too easy to use yet. He's obviously just getting it going but he's been going after it and hasn't stopped.

Mark

Hey Mark,

  Thanks for the quick reply. He does seem serious about it as there is a long history when I do some searches on him but the website doesn't make me feel confident it is useable .  Nice new avatar btw.

Mike

I will be building a high end PC next month and setting up my own little render farm.

If it turns out that the render times are good enough, I can help out when needed.

I wouldnt really charge, it would be more of a if you like the results you can donate something type of deal.

Hey Analog-x64,

 That is a very generous offer. Right now the person asking me about a carrara renderfarm was looking at a dedicated renderfarm option so I would think it would be too much for your personal renderfarm for us to use.  

  I hope things go well setting up your render farm and new computer, sounds exciting for you. Don't pull out too much of your hair setting up your computer/renderfarm as I probably would if I would do something like that. 

Mike 

Hi mmoir, if you need it I have currently 4 quad cores dedicated to carrara (and Vue as well); I can't offer much but may be available for you at any time, for free of course. ciao

Hi rexus,

  Right now I don't need any rendering done but we were looking to see what was out the with regards to renderfarms for carrara .   Thanks for the generous offer of your renderfarm, it is nice to know that the carrara forum members are so willing to help out.

Thanks,

Mike

The type of render farm that I will be setting up is more suited for the hobbyiest, maybe you have a small animation or an image that you would like to render at a higher quality but dont want tie up your computer for a week.  I can step in and help.

Initial setup Will be Quad Core system + Core 2 Duo systems + various Pentium 4 and Pentium D systems.

I'm building it for my own render needs, however I dont mind providing render time for those who may need it.

Analog,

  This is good to know.

Thanks

I priced out a Vue animation I did at home using one of the major farm services. What took my 24 core pc to produce in 18 days (a long time I know) PRICED OUT AT $5,700.00 us DOLLARS. Thats 2500 1280x720 frames at broadcast

hobepaintball,

  This is some good information , to me that is pretty expensive per frame.

Thanks for posting this.

Mike

Quote - hobepaintball,

  This is some good information , to me that is pretty expensive per frame.

Thanks for posting this.

Mike

It was expensive due to the quality, atmosphere size etc. A simple animation of the same lenght in a smaller size might only be $500.00 You determine the average render time of each of your frames and the number of intel cores and speed and type etc, enter that into their calculator and it will price it out. Very handy to know if you make a draft quality presentation to someone and say my work is $xXX.00 but it will cost you another $5200.00 to get it to the quality you want for TV.

Also I'm refering to the 2 big farms, not the one mentioned in this post.

Pcicing example (once again from the big guys)

enter time to render each frame 2 examples 5 minutes and 4 hours. 5 minutes $1100.00 4 hours $23,000. While my average render time was 5 minutes I rerendered the last 100 frames of mostly sky at a huch higher atmosphere quality setting and the render time sunk to 4 hours per frame. I have dual zeons (12 cores each).

This link does not include the rerendered 100 last frames as they will go with titles and credits when reposted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q81JU-iCo8

Thanks for the breakdown regarding frame quality/price.  Nice animation .