rendering quick animations on high-core counts.

[super gnu]

as mentioned in other threads i have a 3990x. ive got a load of animation to render, but its stuff that takes 10-15 seconds a frame to render. it sometimes seems that the c.lockspeed barely has time to ramp up before its onto the next frame, and the scene setup/file saving takes almost as long as the renders.

in this case, would there be some benefit to rendering 2 or more frames consecutively on the same machine? is there any way to open 2 or more backburner servers on the same machine so it renders multiple frames at the same time?


any advice most appreciated!

[psanitra]

Just get Deadline, you can run multiple slaves(called "worker" now) on single machine, for free. Many times i run 8 servers on my workstation to utilize the CPU to 100%

[super gnu]

thanks for the tip.. i used to have deadline.. sounds like its worth setting it up on the new box

[matthew999]

i believe it works without license for 2 machines