The worst render failures are the quiet ones. The job did not crash with a dramatic error. It just stopped, sometime around 2am, and sat there doing [...]
I budgeted about 30 dollars for my first proper cloud render. The bill came in near 90. I had not been overcharged, and nothing had gone wrong with t [...]
A render finishes, you scrub through the sequence, and there are holes. A few frames are missing entirely, a couple are half-written or weirdly tiny [...]
Most missed deadlines are missed silently, hours in advance, by people who never did the one calculation that would have warned them. You can know at [...]
A 10-second motion graphics piece cost me about 20 dollars to render in the cloud last month. A 20-second character shot ran closer to 55. A heavy 4K [...]
Most animators have no real idea what their rendering costs, including past me. We feel the electricity bill creep up, we wince at a render farm invo [...]
The message lands at 7pm for a 9pm delivery. "Small change, can you make the logo blue instead of red?" Your stomach drops, because you know the rend [...]
"Display driver stopped responding and has recovered." If you render on a GPU, you have seen that message, usually three hours into a render, right b [...]
C4D and Redshift is the combination I run most days, and when it crashes on render it is almost never random. There is a cause, and it is usually one [...]
This one is its own special kind of frustrating, because the render did not crash. It finished. It reported success. And half the frames came back co [...]