Good News for the Render Farm Industry

A render farm services provider has announced five major changes in the company which will lead to numerous advantages to the 3D animation industry.

1. Adoption of green energy .The company has been using only green power, provided by Naturstrom AG, Germany is top independent provider of entirely renewable energy. The company is energy source is made of 58% water, 41.5% wind and 0.5% sun. On the other hand the typical energy mix of an average render farm is made of 47% carbon, 27% atomic energy, 14% oil or gas and 12% green energy.

2. Development of the no-cost Farminizer software . The Farminizer from Rebus is a free of charge download allowing 3D developers to render their work flawlessly with a simple mouse click. They can begin a render task within their preferred 3D software and save the rendered frames to a local folder. The Windows version of the Farminizer supports Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Maya 3D, Softimage XSI, Modo and Lightwave 3D. For the time being, Maxwell Render is only supported in beta mode. The MAC version of the Farminizer supports Maya 3D, Cinema 4D, Modo and Lightwave 3D, while the support for Maxwell Render is also available in beta mode. Naturally, if the selected 3D software of the developer is not supported by the Farminizer, they can render it in the conventional way.

3. Increased processing power . Presently, Rebus Farm works on 140 Intel XEON E5420 and 112 Intel Q6600 processors, each of them with 8GB RAM and 64bit OS. The collective processing power reaches 2500GHZ.

4. Implementation of staggered discount plan . In fact, the more customers render, the less is the cost they pay per GHZ. Thus, customers are able to save between 10% and 60% in their render job.

5. Restructure of website . Their website has been significantly improved to simplify things for the increasing 3D community. The new enhanced website includes tutorials for Farminizer, cost calculator and various other utilities as well for 3D developers.

Fox Render farm is a preeminent render service supplier in the web zone, that operates through cloud-computing technology and over 500 servers that provide mobile storage space to clients. A young, 2010 founded render farm, it offers rendering services 365 days a year to the end-recipients. In the hardware segment, the configuration of the machines it supports comprise Intel Xeon E5645 x 2 processor, 24GB RAM and 20GBPS of InfiniBand. The internet connection requires the speed of 200MBPS with an activated hardware firewall. The company enables 64-bit scenes rendering with 32-bits software through automatic analysis and integration of correct plug-ins. Fox Renderfarm supports the prime 3D animation software like 3dsMax and Autodesk Maya.

Fox render farm help you online rendering

Render Farms are in fact resources in the effort to produce quality imagery online. Functionality is handled by the so called 'queue' manager. Extended farms efficiently use the queue manager tool to routinely allocate the processes within and to the incorporated processors within the RF cluster. All integrated processes have a role to the rendering of one single full image or a couple of images or a selected sub-section of an image, referred to as a segment or as a tile. The RF technology is included in the package which is promoted to the industry as client-server dedicated software package. The package is created to simplify efficient communication between the different processors and the queue manager. Still, it is common for certain queues not to have a dedicated main manager.

The running queue managers in the RenderFarms handle such features as dedicated re-prioritization of the relevant queue and efficient organization of the issued software license. They are also responsible for the algorithms that optimize the throughput based on the effective hardware in the farm.

Render farm is a quickly advancing job title as a grosser as well. The needed operations to optimize a RF are managed by system engineers, known as render wranglers. They are skilled professionals handling the monitoring and maintenance of a RF and also the entire 'farm' theme approach. Such render wrangler titles can be seen in the film credits of several box office hits.

Fox Renderfarm is now one of the largest online render farms. Our services have been approved by thousands of CG production companies with quality performance and competitive price.

Solutions For 3D Rendering

Many industries depend heavily on 3D modeling and animation these days and it has gone beyond your average animation and advertisement sector. Many businesses need to have 3D graphics in order to function and they are as diverse as the furniture industry and the mining industry. They all rely on 3D graphics demonstrations, logos and animations to make better presentations to clients. Even the hospitality sector has been benefitting from it.

So it is understandable that the demand for 3D graphics has been escalating over the years and has been increasing exponentially in recent times. This has given rise to a boom on the industry and smaller studios are cropping everywhere.

But this is a tough industry to please and set up is also very expensive even when you want to do it in a small way. This is because hardware is very expensive to buy and the process needs a lot of hardware indeed. The basic process of creating the model and the wireframes are the tough part. Even tough they require specialized equipments, compared to what comes next, it is not much.

The real challenge lies in rendering your work to a workable file. No matter the platform you work on and the software you use, you will face this problem time and again. The main reason this is such a huge problem is the amount of processing power that the rendering process needs. One CPU will never be able to handle the load with a bearable finishing time, even if it is a four-core or an eight-core processor. This is why almost everyone has to create clusters of CPUs to distribute their rendering workload. However, there's only so many CPUS a studio can afford, especially if it is a small studio. And the main problem is that other than during rendering, these CPUs are not used by the people who own them. So this is also a bit of deadweight to the company.

This is why hiring other people to do your rendering for you is a much better idea. Not only does you save you from having to invest in more systems than you need for the actual creation process but it also lowers your running costs, headers and your output time. That makes your company look much more efficient and professional to your client. You are able to deliver the work much faster and without any investment. All you have to do is pay per GHz of processing power that you are using.

This is service is provided by specialised render farm that have large clusters of their own that are dedicated for performing rendering tasks and all softwares and their respective renders are supported. So whether you use Maya, 3D Max, Blender or something else, a good rendering farm will be able to provide you the functionality right inside your software with a dedicated plugin.

The support software for Fox Render farm

Fox Renderfarm can support render 3ds Max and Maya, other software like Softimage or C4D will be supported soon. As to render engines, we support Mental Ray, V-Ray, Final Render and many others. Please following below for more details.

3D software	Render Engine	Plug-ins
3dsMax 9 (32/64-bit) 3dsMax2008 (64-bit) 3dsMax2009 (64-bit) 3dsMax2010 (64-bit) 3dsMax2011 (64-bit) 3dsMax2012 (64-bit)	V-Ray Scanline Final Render Mental Ray Krakatoa	VRayScatter 2.5 MultiScatter 1.1.05/1.0.18a Afterburn V4.0 DreamScape 2.5 FUMEFX 2.1 Thinking.Particles V3.0_SP2 RealFlow V5 Tree Storm ForestPackPro3.0 Glu3D
Maya 7.0 (32-bit) Maya 8.5 (64-bit) Maya 2008 (64-bit) Maya 2009 (64-bit) Maya 2010 (64-bit) Maya 2011 (64-bit) Maya 2012 (64-bit)	Software MentalRay V-Ray 2.00.04

Note:
1) You can render your scenes with 64-bit software, even you design it with 32-bit.
2) The system of Fox Renderfarm will automatically analyze the version of your scene file and assign appropriate renderer and plug-ins for rendering.

As one of the most leading online render farm around the world, Fox Renderfarm, which is based on cloud-computing technology, has more than 500 servers. We provide clients with 24/7 cloud render service which can be accessed via Internet globally.