Anyone used Deadline for architectural animation

[ilyafloussov]

Hi everyone,

Having increasingly grown sick and tired of backburner and fusion's own flaky render manager, we are thinking of switching our office render management to deadline. The price tag is pretty high for all the machines but it seems to be pretty solid.

 

Just wanted to know if anyone is using it for architectural animation specifically with fly-throughs and pre-calculated IR maps. Scripted dependencies are a huge issue for submitting to backburner, and we have a pretty good workaround for that but submitting fusion and ae jobs is a huge plus. The other contender right now is smedge but not really sure about that one yet.