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Pixel Plow render farm

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2015 01:03
by rawdesigns
Hey everyone I just wanted to share this affordable render farm I found. As a content producer I keep pushing my loops for higher quality and thus longer render times are a result. What I found with Pixel Plow is that you can adjust the priority or (power) used for your render. Farms like Rebus Render peg you at a set price and it renders as fast as possible. What I like about Pixel Plow is that you can save a lot of money by tuning the power setting down. Yes this takes longer but it beats paying top dollar to have your project done within an hour or two. Also a neat feature is you can cap your price by dollar amount and the render stops when it reaches that set price.
Pixel Plow Link> http://www.pixelplow.net/


It's best if I show you.
You can see that I rendered 53 frames for just over $2.00 while on my i7-4930k 6core CPU only pushed out 16 frames during the same 3 hour window.
Pixel Plow
Pixel Plow
Let me know if anyone else has used this or even knows of a better service. Happy rendering! :D

Re: Pixel Plow render farm

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 05:37
by hive8
I do all my rendering on the GPU now. I had a 2 Titan Black and upgrading to Titan X now, with a GTX 980 is the graphics card. Almost does these things in realtime.

You should check out octane render.

Re: Pixel Plow render farm

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 15:53
by rawdesigns
hive8 wrote:You should check out octane render.
Yeah I'm looking into Octane currently it just playing around with the trial plugin and trying to learn the basics. The out put Octane has is spectacular!