Cloud Rendering for 3Delight?

christopher-2607496

Hello!

I've been using DAZ Studio for a couple of years but I've only recently started working on animation.  It's going pretty well but I'm getting murdered on rendering times - it takes my quad-core i7 4790 about 2 hours to render 1 second of 1080p video at the lowest quality settings that I'm willing to use.  Since I'm away from my computer for about 18 hours a day (12 hours at work/commuting + 6-7 hours for sleep)  this means that I can only do one real render per day.  So when I come home and stitch my frames together in Premiere Elements and decide I don't like how something looks and I fiddle with the material settings or the lights or whatever and then rerender everything I basically waste the entire day.  I'm sure part of that's just the learning curve from learning to animate but it's still a huge bottleneck.

I looked at some workstations.  I can get a good 10-core Xeon workstation with an internal RAID array to make editing less painful for about $2500 which I think would achieve about a 3-fold rendering speedup.  That's a good chunk of change though, so I was thinking about a cloud-based solution.  I've seen some IRay solutions and I know you can get a licence for 3Delight to do a distributed render but neither of those are quite what I'm looking for.  Is there such a service?

Thanks for your help in advance!

mjc1016

You can either use a script to batch render within Studio, grab the free 3DL and set up local batch rendering outside of Studio (render to RIB in Studio)...this has the advantage of freeing up Studio to do other tasks while the renders are going on. 

The question was asked on the 3Delight forums about a year ago and the answer there was pretty much...no, there's not much out there, at least in the 'cheap' end of the spectrum.