Category: Render farm

I'll give you my honest answer after using both engines across 200+ cloud-rendered projects: Redshift is 43% cheaper per frame and 3.6× faster on iRen [...]

Best Render Farm for EEVEE vs Cycles Animation: When Real-Time Is Enough

EEVEE renders so fast, 0.7 seconds per frame on iRender's RTX 4090, under 2 seconds on a local RTX 3070 that cloud rendering only saves meaningful tim [...]

Best Render Farm for Cycles Animation: Blender GPU Rendering on Cloud

What's the best render farm for Blender Cycles animation? Let's see! [...]

Best Render Farm for V-Ray Animation: Fast Sequence Rendering on Cloud

I'll say something that might surprise you given how much I advocate for iRender: for V-Ray animation sequences, GarageFarm is often the better choice [...]

Best Render Farm for Arnold Animation: GPU vs CPU for Character & Sequence

If you're still rendering Arnold on CPU, I have some numbers that might change your mind. I tested the same 500-frame Maya character animation - walk [...]

Best Render Farm for Octane Animation: GPU Scaling Test with C4D Projects

What's the best render farm for Octane animation? Let's find out in this blog! [...]

Best Render Farm for Redshift Animation: Multi-GPU Speed for Motion Graphics

I've been rendering with Redshift for 4 years, and on cloud for the last 3. There's a reason it's my default engine: Redshift is the cheapest renderer [...]

Best Render Farm for Animation Render Optimization: 10 Tips Before Using Cloud

Here's something I wish someone had told me before I started spending money on cloud rendering: the cheapest render farm in the world won't save you f [...]

Best Render Farm for Animation Versioning: Re-Rendering Updated Shots on Cloud

Every animator knows this moment: the render is done, the video looks great, then the client says "Can we try it in blue?" And suddenly you're re-rend [...]

Best Render Farm for Animation Remote Work: Rendering from Home on Cloud