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Does this enable remote render farms? That would be huge for independent animation studios.

• pfranz 10y ago
  Most render farms for animation studios are CPU based renderers. VFX companies have been using cloud rendering here and there for a few years now[1]. There has been chatter for 10+ years that GPU based rendering is on the cusp of changing everything (predating the cloud push). Anecdotally, small (1 or 2 man shops) have had luck with onsite GPU rendering when they have a lot of simple things to do. Larger places need more flexibility than GPU renderers have offered and places with large in-house render farms don't have any GPUs installed on them. Although, recently, GPU rendering has gotten some traction in larger facilities[2]. Cloud rendering makes it easier to move towards these kinds of things becuase you don't have to commit to the hardware upfront. However, the big problem with cloud rendering at even modestly sized animation/vfx houses is transferring the terabytes to and from the cloud (the consenus is to leave it in the cloud or use a local cloud). [1] http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Magazine/2012/November-1-2012/VFX-Flight-makes-use-of-the-cloud.aspx http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Post-Magazine/2012/... [2] https://www.redshift3d.com/blog/blizzards-overwatch-animated-shorts-rendered-with-redshift https://www.redshift3d.com/blog/blizzards-overwatch-animated...