DIY Renderfarm Building Tutorial for Distributed Blender Rendering

A text version of this video is available here 👉 Accelerate your renders with a Render Farm! A render farm is simply a collection of networked computers that work together to render a sequence in less time. By dividing your sequence between multiple machines your total render time becomes a fraction of what it is on a single computer. Most production studios will fill huge rooms with server rack upon server rack, full of thousands of rendering computers (or render nodes as you’ll hear them called). But they’re also useful (as well as financially viable) for smaller teams or even individuals. A render farm can be a custom built cluster for a few thousand dollars or it can be a collection of arbitrary computers, a computer lab with networked stations, or you can invite all your friends over with their laptops. The only requirement is that all the machines are functional with the basic requirements for running Blender. They can be operating with Linux (21:05 in the video),