[joris.b]

Hello all,

For a project with a tight deadline, I'm thinking about using a render farm.
Can somebody recommend a firm? Since I don't have any experience with this, what would the cost be for an image that renders about 6-8 hours on my machine (intel i7) with a .mxi size around 600Mb to 800Mb? To be honest there isn't much budget for this, but tried the calculatur at Rebusfarm and it would be somewhere around 10 - 15 euro for a single image, unless I did something wrong. Could that be correct?

Thanks in advance!

Joris

[stanfordr]

Sorry for the slow response but maybe for the future.

We use Pixelplow. You can adjust the cost for each job. Their monitor shows the cost, which be can adjusted by adjusting the priority up or down but the lower the priority the slower the rendering time. We pay $2-4 for a rendering that would take an i7 6-8hrs but that's at low priority and it can take 2-8 hrs on the farm depending on the available resources but it allows us to render up to 3 jobs concurrently, so sometimes it frees up resources, when we are trying to output several images overnight.

[Graham Harvey]

I use Rebus render. I often pay upwards of 20 Euros per image.

[Fast Render Farm]

Hi. We're a Maxwell Render specialized render farm, it's the only render engine we support!

To give you all an idea of the costs & for simplicity of comparison:

One image that takes 72 hours (3 days) to render on a i7 4790K is rendered in Fast Render Farm in about one hour and a half with a cost of only 43 credits.

1 credit = 1€ but prices can be much lower if you buy credits in bulk.

You can use our estimate costs tool to have an idea of the cost of your image/animation: http://www.fastrender.farm/index.php?pa ... ulatecosts

If you have any question feel free to ask: support@fasrender.farm