4.5x Speed When Rendering Blender Animations Using Multiple Computers!

[@SpoonerStudios]

Awesome, thank you for showing how to do this. I have a loads of computers at my disposal and will definitely get this going.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

It’s really great especially for animation work.

[@charliemcgrain]

I just use the open GL for testing the animation. Also, you can get slightly different image quality from mixing GPU and CPU renders, that can cause flicker in your animation, best to be uniform and just use one or the other, obviously GPU is best. But great info. Thanks.

[@blendpinexus1416]

oh yeah, i always test a quick preview form of the animation to see if the cpu and gpu will produce different results for that particular animation.

[@mooooooon9296]

special and unique content ! thank you .

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@funtv5693]

hahhah i nearly melted my brain lol. ithought you weregoingo do a network render lol.

[@davemcbride149]

Brilliant, why didnt I think of this before? Being trying for years to get Crowdrender to work with no success, plus it stores 100MB exr files of every frame, eating up your hard drive in a 2000 frame render!

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Really glad it has helped you!

[@aegisgfx]

Flemenco is a much better process to use these days

[@AndrewConway]

Good Stuff! I have marked this video in my "Point of Reference" favorites in Save-To

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :D

[@DeejayJeanP]

Does this still work today? Great video!

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Yes it does! And I still use this if I have a large animation to do :-)

[@DeejayJeanP]

@@MichaelBridges3D Awesome, thank you for getting back to me! Actually rendered a video this morning but just broke the project off into two scenes and had one PC render one scene, and another render another haha. Thank you again for this video!

[@simpernchong]

Nice video. I thought you are going to do some cloud rendering. 😄

[@MichaelBridges3D]

I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[@euricoakbarrabbani]

Thanks Man! This is help me a lot

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Glad it helped!

[@tegolley]

im the viewer number 9,000 .... it's over 9 thousand thanks bro

[@artist3d]

how you do that? how you connect all computer?

[@MichaelBridges3D]

All the computers have access to the same file and out put fold. I use a NAS, you could use dropbox as well or google drive / one drive etc ... any synchronisation service will do, then all the computers would need to be on the internet.

[@artist3d]

@@MichaelBridges3D thanks 🙏🏻, how you give render order ?

[@FloppyFish]

This is a really good idea and might just save my production. I just have one question, so if I were to render all of the files to the same place (I think I'm going to use Google Drive like you recommended) to get the placeholder method to work, how exactly would I go about setting Blender to output to Google Drive? Because it is not a regular folder in the File Explorer like a Network Attached Storage device would be.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

YEs that should work, providing GoogleDrive will sync quickly enough to all the computers. Personally I would use a NAS or one of the PCs on the Local Network as the storage location .

[@nicolanarracci]

Great. :)

[@neilmarshall5087]

You need to not have the render window showing. There is no actual need for it to be visible - the render bar shows the progress. Each frame renders faster if it is hidden.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Neil Marshall Great tip! You can increase it further by rendering in headless mode too. 👍

[@electricpictures100]

@@MichaelBridges3D excellent just what I was looking for. Thank you

[@lebenin3604]

Wow. I will try this. Thanks for sharing this. #blender

[@MichaelBridges3D]

My pleasure 😊

[@sherlockhomes9919]

Blender doesn't have a decent network render controller. Lmao

[@selfmade9546]

hahaha maniac love the pasion

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Got to have fun :D

[@TheStevoth]

Helpful Video.

[@1youssefadelone198]

Please videos about "basics of making an environment" Thank you for reading this comment

[@1youssefadelone198]

Make videos about*

[@MichaelBridges3D]

A general overview of environments or are you looking for something more specific?

[@1youssefadelone198]

@@MichaelBridges3D general please

[@mooooooon9296]

@@MichaelBridges3D people want to learn basic of modeling . the content you publish is a bit targeting advanced users.

[@IbrahimYounes]

@@mooooooon9296 There are tons of people doing Basic of Modeling, with amount of information on the Internet you can become a master. I would say keep the advance stuff coming, thanks for sharing Michael :)

[@asadrais007]

It's really amazing, but I am using crowrender, I am having 4 pc. Master PC. Core i9 10gen, 2060 RTX, SSD, 32GB. NODE 1 i7, 32GB, SSD , GTX 1070, NODE 2 i7, 32GB, SSD, GTX 1060, NODE 3 i5, 32gb Rendering time 70% reduced, If I use 2000 as sample setting then It take only 5 minutes, before It was taking around 25 minutes. With 100 samples, Before - 2 mint 30 sec. And now 40sec only.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

That's an amazing improvement!

[@blendpinexus1416]

i wonder if there is a method to do this in a more automated way

[@MichaelBridges3D]

I have been looking into both ssh connections to the machines and other remote methods as well that are simple and easy to explain… that’s the challenging part.

[@blendpinexus1416]

@@MichaelBridges3D oh cool, let me know on your findings

[@riazulrahil]

Oh. My. God. How many computers in total? :o

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Enough the keep the children occupied! 😂

[@NTruske]

Enjoys ! is so well done ! can you recommend a linux version ?

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Linux works really well. And depending on what you are trying to do in general it can be a very good choice. I recommend Pop_OS!

[@jayanthl7000]

Hello sir, really enjoying your blender courses! how old are you sir ?

[@CoisasdaLuisaHelena]

Hello, your video was really helpful, thank u ^^ One question: what should we do if we want to folllow that steps but with a video render , not a image sequence? :)

[@MichaelBridges3D]

I really do not recommend rending direct to video, it takes exactly the same length of time to render an image sequence but you have (almost) no options to pause / recover a render if you are rendering and it stops for whatever reason. However, in the output tab change your file format to 'Ffmpeg Video' and under encoding set the container to 'MPEG-4'.

[@cevxj]

not using the command line, I am triggered. Ultrawide on laptop that's rendering. I AM TRIGGERED

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Wanted to make it as accessible to as many as possible. SSH’ing into them all remotely and running a script also isn’t as fun 🙃 But yeah turn off monitors can speed up rendering!

[@cevxj]

@@MichaelBridges3D it was entertaining 👍🏼

[@lp3037]

I have two low end older generation computers that I would like to try building a two nodes cluster. PC#1 i7 2600 with 16gb ddr3 ram and GT 1030 gpu with 2gb ram 240gb SSD 2,5gb Ethernet adapter PC#2 i7 3770 with 8gb ddr3 ram and GT 1030 gpu with 2gb ram 240gb SSD 2.5gb Ethernet adapter One two bay NAS. Are these hardware configurations OK for blender animation rendering? Thank you.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Yeah sure, if the frames render on the computers then you can use them in a cluster. The 3 computers next to one another are 2nd gen Core i5s with 1050tis so they get used during lighter renders

[@Ecceptor]

Just tested using "file output" in compositor. Sadly the overwrite and placeholders option don't exist.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Ahh that's a real shame!

[@MichaelBridges3D]

Quick update, whilst it doesn't have the options for placeholder/overwrite etc, it uses whatever you have set in the output properties, so if you have placeholders checked it will create them.

[@Ecceptor]

@@MichaelBridges3D nice! so you need to save them in two place? One with output render, and one with "file output" node. I usually leave nothing in file output and save render using node.

[@MichaelBridges3D]

@@Ecceptor yeah if you use the file output it will generate placeholders- but only if place holders is checked under the Output Properties > Output

[@hellerart]

I wonder what these PCs would equal in 4090s ;) All PC like 1 4090? Or are they all 3080s?

[@MichaelBridges3D]

lol no at the time of recording a lot of those only had 1050ti's / 1060 in them

[@TheMchip]

fun but you didnt explained how to set it up ....