daniohayon Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Hi, My office needs a new render farm to handle long animations and increasing amount of work. We are looking at few solutions and one of them is to simply outsource it to firms that just do that: renting render farms. Can I get some idea about the process from people that use this kind of service? Is this reliable/fast? How is the experience with this service in your work flow? How all the libraries/RPC/render assets/Proxies are used? Do you have to archive the whole thing for every render test and upload it? Also, any recommendations for render farms you've worked before? Many thanks guys, Dani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I've used http://www.remote-render.com/ and was pleased with customer service, and turn around time. They're pretty good about being communicative over skype which was important for me when explaining specific details or needs. Only used them for large stills, so can't speak to animations, but I just archived the scene with desired render settings, and got scenes back with a couple hours most times, if it was a reasonable time of day. It was a bit of a drag to have to archive and upload every time, but their ftp is pretty speedy. Good luck, M- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 have always used respower and with their 500$ unlimited rendering for 14 days , it is hard offer to beat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creasia Posted January 11, 2011 Share Posted January 11, 2011 Rebus Farm is cool. They have a plugin that is integrated into Studio Max that automatically gathers assets and then it automatically transfers your animated and still frames back to a folder on your harddrive. I have used it a couple of times and it has worked well for us in deadline emergencys. It is pretty awsome to look and see that your file is being rendered by more than 100 computers at a time. I felt like George Lucas. See http://www.rebusfarm.com/render-farm-home-ppc_en.html?gclid=CLOEr7Kks6YCFUdrKgodTma9oA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Another vote here for Rebusfarm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVI Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I've never had to outsource to a farm before, but as a matter of interest; what type of render times do you encounter for say a 2 minute (25fps) animation at HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 I recently did about 4000 frames on Rebusfarm at video res, not HD. Each frame took 10 to 15 mins on a Q6600 here in the office. I'm pretty sure the whole lot was rendered in under two hours on Rebusfarm. It actually took longer to download the rendered files than it took to render them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamondayfan Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 Rebus is OK, but their support is poor if you need to speak to someone. Also their 3Ds Max plug in can be very tedious and quite time consuming. Has anyone used https://www.respower.com/ recently? Their website looks very dated, and their cost calculator shows some really old processors! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 I've not used them yet but I'm going to try our Render Nation (http://www.rendernation.com/) next week for an animation I'm working on. I've chatted with them a couple of times, they seem to be very friendly and knowledgeable. They even bought a specific plug-in that they didn't have just so I can render my job! I'll let you guys know how I get on. With regards to Rebusfarm, I've had no problems with their telephone support. I've only once not had them answer but they called me right back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armilla Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 I've used Rebus before - they were very helpful and were great value when the Pound was stronger against the Euro, but more recently I've found Render Nation to be the great value, fast and very helpful. Give then a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniohayon Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 Thank you so much everyone for all the input! This has been very helpful!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I recently did about 4000 frames on Rebusfarm at video res, not HD. Each frame took 10 to 15 mins on a Q6600 here in the office. I'm pretty sure the whole lot was rendered in under two hours on Rebusfarm. It actually took longer to download the rendered files than it took to render them!! Craig, any chance your at liberty to say what this job cost? I'm setting up to do something similar, and curious what a job like this would run.. Ghz hours and all the jargon make my head spin a bit... Thanks much, M- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I agree, I have always found GHz hours confusing. Is there a standard online calculator for calculating GHZ hours? ....if I have a 10 minute frame on a quad hyperthreaded 2.6ghz Xeon chip, what does that mean in GHz hours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tayrona Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I agree with alias_marks about remote-render.com very nice customer service, reliable and I have used them for animations and results have been very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 (edited) ....if I have a 10 minute frame on a quad hyperthreaded 2.6ghz Xeon chip, what does that mean in GHz hours? ghz/ hr calculator... http://www.rebusfarm.com/rebusshop-2_en.html or are you wondering how to calculate with the hyperthreading, not sure I've ever seen any sites with that incorporated into the options..... Edited January 27, 2011 by BrianKitts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Craig, any chance your at liberty to say what this job cost? I'm setting up to do something similar, and curious what a job like this would run.. Ghz hours and all the jargon make my head spin a bit... Thanks much, M- Yeah, it was about 580 Euros all in I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymutt Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Being released next week is this new service: www.stratusfarm.com Amazon Cloud rendering, all billing goes monthly through your Amazon account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biteny Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 a vote for Fox Render Farm. One seldom leading render farm based in China. It's pretty awesome to see that your file is being rendered by more than 100 computers at a time with quality performance and competitive prices. Still, pretty nice customer service and support. Try it~ www.foxrenderfarm.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noway Posted September 9, 2011 Share Posted September 9, 2011 i think it really depends on what you want. Fox Render Farm has great customer service, and to be honest, it is very fast, also the price is ok. but it only supports 3ds Max and Maya rendering and the download speed sometimes is slow. as to other render farms like Respower and Render Rockect, they can supports more than these two rendering. but it's more expensive and maybe the customer service isn't that good. so i guess every render farm has its own good and bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanaurievna Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I advise to use the farm mozg4d. Good quality, low prices and high power. http://mozg4d.com/renderfarm.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 We have used Render Nation several times now and have had absolutely superb service from them, especially when tight deadlines are concerned. Every time I needed to speak to someone I was given a direct line to them, and they would always phone up to let us know if there were any problems before they hit render, rather than using hours & hours of the render farms time to produce results that would have to be re-done. As mentioned before the transferring of files is generally the tedious part, but their FTP is very fast. Great value for money imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessicagordon Posted May 16, 2012 Share Posted May 16, 2012 Agree Respower and render rocket are fast and supporting lots of softwares Fox Render Farm and render core are cheaper I also heard that Lenovo is planning to set up a render farm,too More and more render farms now!good news i think it really depends on what you want. Fox Render Farm has great customer service, and to be honest, it is very fast, also the price is ok. but it only supports 3ds Max and Maya rendering and the download speed sometimes is slow. as to other render farms like Respower and Render Rockect, they can supports more than these two rendering. but it's more expensive and maybe the customer service isn't that good. so i guess every render farm has its own good and bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noise Posted May 17, 2012 Share Posted May 17, 2012 If I wanted to send a high res still that needed to be rendered quickly with VRay, do they support distributed rendering ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CEJ1976 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Niall, I used to use Rebusfarm loads (before investing in my own setup here) and they were great. The plugin for 3ds max works as though you simply have your own renderfarm sitting under your desk, and as for high res stills yes it is configured for distributed rendering. My main advice is to be sure your scene/image is working correctly before you submit to render so that you dont return half and hour later and get a nasty suprise from a cost perspective! The guy who runs it is usually very helpful if you have made a mistake anyhow. It isnt manned 24hrs a day though, if you wanted this type of service then perhaps consider Render Nation in Liverpool who have people there 24hrs a day. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxgooday Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Render Nation gets the thumbs up from me. Quick, helpful and not a bad price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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