Blendergrid

Fast Rendering for Blender 🚜 #b3d

A Blender focused render farm, designed and created by Blender artists.

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

our new #b3d render farm platform is live! https://t.co/IC11sBiKdy

https://t.co/VD6fovhUN4

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

making it more obvious that background transparency is working #b3d #Rails
minecraft pig stolen from "I just want the pic" @blendswap

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

We’re experimenting with putting the next frame in the proverbial 'starting blocks', while the current one is still rendering. So the moment it finishes, the new frame fires instantly, without waiting for uploads or other shenanigans.

We like our CPU % at 100 🚀

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

a humble attempt to crank as much #b3d render juice as possible out of these 96 cores :3

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

@SouthernShotty show the render! :D

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

we had this tiny, mostly AI generated bash script to .zip up rendered frames nicely into chunks, but it felt a bit slow..

So we did some tests and handwrote the same thing with parallelization, resulting in a cheeky ~99% time save.

Benchmark: 25 min vs 15 sec
#vibecoding

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

If you want to use #b3d add-ons on a render farm:

Check if the add-on's effects can be baked to keyframes, or has a "prep for farm" kinda button.

For example the Camera Shakify from @Mrdodobird has done a great job:

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

Rendering is a bit faster and a bit cheaper :)

We've optimized the way we cache source files to reduce download and unpack time.

For a 2GB 200 frame animation: Source file preparation went from 19.5% down to 1.7% of the Job time

#b3d

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

and we're planning to come full circle, compressing all the complexity we've gathered over the years

Playground site live at https://t.co/nvy0tSAtFF

(yes it's ruby on rails)

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

this is what we looked like in 2014

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https://t.co/2Q8OLdgoqy

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

white noise vs. blue noise

If you're not on Blender 4.4 yet, this is an improvement you kind of get for free with blue-noise sampling in Cycles
#b3d #cycles

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

@StudioQudu Thanks! we definitely have to step up our frontend game , but we have a different approach in mind!

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

We've got a whole new tutorial on how to build Spherical Fibonacci patterns in #Blender https://t.co/qVjaCA30Iz Check out the short vid and click on the link in description for the #tutorial! #b3d #geometrynodes

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

Always nice to hear we're making it easy and affordable to render #Blender projects! #b3d #renderfarm #blenderrender #blender3d See how we can help you - https://t.co/JHodLkiZnI

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

We've got a whole new tutorial on how to build Spherical Fibonacci patterns in #Blender https://t.co/8eNVZbNL7E Check out the short vid and click on the link in description for the #tutorial! #b3d #blendertutorials

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

Part 2 of the tutorial almost going live: https://t.co/hVBzQfLjif

#b3d #blender #geometrynodes

[Richard van der Oost @richardvdoost]

the classic fibonacci / golden ratio flower seeds pattern in #b3d geometry nodes
https://t.co/QF9GmRQxPq

[Blendergrid @blendergrid]

NEW #BLENDERTUTORIAL IS UP! https://t.co/pPEOOayfMQ Check out some new cool tricks with #geometry nodes!

[Richard van der Oost @richardvdoost]

building the next @blendergrid #b3d render management system with pdd*

pancake driven development

[Richard van der Oost @richardvdoost]

new #b3d tutorial: beveling engraved svg logo edges
(some monstrosities of node setups being made)

https://t.co/xEXfJf7Efk