SheepIT - free render farm for Blender
My GPU (and CPU for that matter) is idle most of the time, but when I want to render an animation it doesn't have enough power to complete the rendering job quickly. The basic idea is very simple: you help in the rendering of other's people projects, and in exchange, other people help you to render.
SheepIT is a free Blender render farm that I've wanted to test for quite some time. Now that I've used it, I want to share my experience with you. The basic idea is very simple: you help in the rendering of other's people projects, and in exchange, other people help you to render.
It's very easy to use, it's free and it has great community around it.
What is SheepIT?
SheepIT is "a free distributed render farm for Blender". Let's break it down. Render farm is a group of computers that are connected together to complete rendering tasks. That is, instead of rendering your animation frame by frame on your local PC, the job is being split into multiple frames (or even tiles) and each machine in the render farm renders just some of them.
Distributed in this context means that instead of using 1 big server room, SheepIT uses PCs of users that connect to it all around the world.
discord. I am frequently in the #blender channel :). Please note this post was not sponsored by SheepIT