Online Render Farms

[zboog]

Has anyone had any success with an online GPU workstation rental?

I'm looking to get additional resources to finish a big render we'd like to do in Octane (for Maya 2016) in the next week.

Is Amazon AWS something that could be used?

[Goldorak]

Has anyone had any success with an online GPU workstation rental?

I'm looking to get additional resources to finish a big render we'd like to do in Octane (for Maya 2016) in the next week.

Is Amazon AWS something that could be used?

Ping Fuzzybro about ORC, credits (cost is being worked out, but won't be more expensive than doing it yourself on AWS). Make sure your scenes render correctly in V3 alpha 4 (soon 5) before submitting scenes for rendering on ORC. I would also make sure to package the ORBX and drop it in ORC for production jobs.

[mverta]

I just went/am going through this. Depending on your needs, I actually found it far, far cheaper to rent a couple of multi-GPU boxes and buy additional licenses of Octane than to go through renderfarms. I'm getting through 100+ VFX shots for a feature doing that, now. I didn't even bother with the various network rendering issues, I just set up full Maya/Octane workstations and networked them all to a single set of drives with all the scene files on them. I just launch batch renders manually. It's not elegant, it could be more efficient, but it is absolutely getting the job done, and I don't have to suffer for Otoy not answering tech questions or relying on a nearly-dead forum.

If you find an affordable, turn-key renderfarm, please let us know who and where so we can support them!

Thanks,

_Mike