Your Render Time (and How to Optimize)
General To give you a quick example of why it’s faster to use a render farm , imagine that you have a frame that takes 30 seconds to render on your local machine and it takes 1 minute per frame on our farm. While you may have a faster render time, we simply have more machines to throw at the job. In the time it takes your local machine to render 1 frame for 30 seconds, our farm could have up to 30 or more frames done in 1 minute. The idea behind a render farm is to use multiple machines to render the job vs. rendering out one single frame quickly through your local machine. Additionally, you need to make sure that your scene is optimized. If your scene is not optimized, it will take longer to render, and end up costing time and more money. Tips on Lowering Your Render Times All scenes are created differently, so there is not one magic answer. However, there are some general tips that should apply to everyone. Scene Optimization Always prep your scene before uploading/submitting a...