<html><head></head><body>Blender is an amazing tool! Add in it's solidly open source and that makes it even better.<br>
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It is, however, very intimidating.<br>
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Any chance of someone giving a talk on blender for beginners? ALE central has a 65" 4k tv for display :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On March 18, 2016 8:51:32 AM EDT, Jason van Gumster <fweeb@monsterjavaguns.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Chris Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> I made a huge mistake today and installed Blender. Someone posted a picture<br /> to FB labeled "How many girls in this picture? I don't have wall size mirrors<br /> so I installed Blender and recreated the scene. I'm now playing with it. My<br /> last foray into this was with 3D Studio and others back in 94. <br /> <br /> My conclusion that CPUs are so fast now that render times have dropped is<br /> wrong. The scenes have just scaled with resources. I used to start a render,<br /> go to work, and come home to see a beautiful 640x480 picture. 1920x1080 today<br /> is going to be just as painful. <br /> <br /> "Surely there is a service that does this for me" came to my head and sure<br /> enough, I found many links for render farms. <br /> <br /> Are there any that are cos
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effective for someone just goofing off? <br /></blockquote><br />Welcome to the world of Blender!<br /><br />When it comes to farming out your renders, I'd say you have three primary<br />options:<br /><br /> * Sheep It (<a href="https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com">https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com</a>) - this is a distributed farm,<br /> kind of like SETI@home for rendering. I have some friends who speak very<br /> highly of it.<br /><br /> * Renderbot (<a href="http://renderbot.net">http://renderbot.net</a>) - You build your own renderfarm on the fly<br /> using EC2 instances on AWS. I've considered this a couple of times, but<br /> never quite pulled the trigger on it.<br /><br /> * RenderStreet (<a href="https://render.st">https://render.st</a>) - Render Street isn't free, but it's very<br /> affordable. They even give you a free trial run to start with (so if you<br /> just have a few things you need to render, it's essentially free). Their<br />
service is great and they're really the first place I turn to when I'm<br /> rendering on a deadline.<br /><br />You can also get really far by optimizing your render options (this is true<br />whether you're rendering with Cycles or the older 'Blender Internal' renderer).<br />Feel free to ping me if you have any questions regarding Blender. I'm happy to<br />spend time talking about it.<br /><br /> -Jason<br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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