I once tried offloading rendering (Blender to be exact) to Amazon EC2. It turned out to be extremely costly. Rendering a 3-minute video at 1080 would have cost

I once tried offloading rendering (Blender to be exact) to Amazon EC2. It turned out to be extremely costly. Rendering a 3-minute video at 1080 would have cost me $60. Yeah, peanuts for Pixar, but remember this is 3 minutes at 1080, not the ungodly amount of pixels they have to render. Also it was a pretty simple scene; a more complex one would have cost more.