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Hello everyone: I am a interior and arch-viz freelancer from Taiwan. Here is my personal website: http://www.studio-taku.tw In my projects I was always suffering from long and uncontrollable rendering time. The images are almost rendered on separated stand-alone i7 PCs. I would like to know how to combine these PCs to build a more efficient procedure, not only for the final rendering but also for the draft rendering when work in progress. Does anyone can share similar experiences or instructions, for example, V-Ray Distributed Rendering or Backburner or so on? I would very appreciated about the big help. Besides, how long does it take in average rendering a 2000*1500px image of a 30 meter square space should be reasonable? And how to predict the total hours it will take for controlling the deliver time? Thanks and regards, Davis

Hello Everyone: I am a interior and arch-viz freelancer from Taiwan. Here is my website: http://www.studio-taku.tw/ In my projects, I was always suffering from long and uncontrollable rendering time. Images are rendered on separated standalone i7-workstations. I would like to know how to combined these workstations to build a more efficient procedure, not only for final renders but also for works in progress. Does anyone could share similar experiences or directions, for example, V-Ray Distributed Rendering or Backburner or other ideas. I will be very appreciated about the big help. Besides, how long does it take in average to render a 2000*1500px images of a 30 meter square interior? How to estimate the total hours in order to control and promise the delivery time? Thanks and regards, Davis

Hello CGA, There has been much discussion lately about render farm services as well as building or buying rendering machines. We are refreshing our farm, but also working with a new IT service provider who is pushing us to look at various cloud providers for on-demand computing. We have also discussed doing a total cost of ownership analysis of the farm, not sure where to start with that... That being said, I have a few questions for the group: How many of you are using dedicated, in-house render farms? In your opinion, what are the benefits of dedicated render power, downsides? What are the breakdown between uses, between animation rendering (frames) and distributed rendering? Of course feel free to add as much or as little detail to your response, I don't want anyone to reveal competitive secrets. Thanks, Nils Norgren