Ahhh, am an enthusiast at best and a quack at worst but dont big production split up the scenes so that they can render faster? I think they use Adobe After effects to combine the scenes. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Mugambi Kimathi < skunkworksjahazi@gmail.com> wrote:
Find out what platform that end users are on.. e.g. 3dmax, maya, archiCAD and the likes.
Get to know what renderer there are using.. The most common is V-Ray and Maxwell Render for Architectural stuff. Mental ray for VFX. For vray - it allows one workstation to control 8 slaves.. any more and you will need another license.
have 2 workstations and 16 render slaves
Renders Slaves - as many core processors (the more cores the more jobs will be split better) - as much ram as possible (to hold the texture maps) - fast ethernet.. there is so much communication between machines. - Fast and large hard disk does not increase the speed of renderings significantly as the rendering is handled at memory then saved on the master machine... or workstation. - A UPS that will handle power blackouts well - an airy room because it will get very hot
Workstation - as many cores as money can buy - Nvidia Quadro graphic cards (these days rendering is shared between CPU and GPU) also its good for end users to view 3D with reflections, refractions, displacement and bump in real time. - as much ram as possible
MK
On Tuesday, November 29, 2011, mabeya conseray wrote:
someone help me design a solution for a small rendering firm(just on what is required and at what cost)
-- Regards Mabeya Seme Conseray HP Solution Architect mobile no. +254 724 204 543
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