Years ago, I used a guy to render out animations. He was just a guy, with his own render farm, and made extra money rendering things out for folks. Anybody like that today? I need to up my quality. I render my scenes in an hour, never takes more, but they fall apart when you zoom in. Nobody has complained, but I want a nice clean render for my finals; they will be stills. I have had poor experiences with automated and unmanned render farms. The estimated cost was always way off, and something seemed to have always gone wrong; I have avoided them for years.
If it is just stills that you need extra render time for, then why not invest in another pc purely to pipe those through?
That may be a lot less hassle than archiving/uploading projects to send to someone else to render.
Yeah, you are probably right. I’ll have to step up and start shopping.
Otherwise, I am fairly quiet and would offer to render them, if that seems like an option, though depending on how many there are a new machine may be the cheaper alternative 
The machines I have been looking at are expesive and although not as convenient, sending them out might be less expesive.
Lol. This post takes me back. That guy is still around He just has no time for rendering anymore 
What are you doing these days?
I have a studio, just manage the team and do bunch of fx and assets. Still have the farm its grown x10 though www.sivfx.com
Oh, then mine will be a peice of cake for you :).
Haha! We don’t support max. I think for your self, is best to get something like a threadripper 3990x pro 64/128 thread cpu with 256 Gb of ram, that would be like 5 normal workstations in one!
That is exactly what I am looking at, but they are expensive. I am looking at $12,000 - easy!
I bought that system 2 years ago. Its an upfront investment for sure. However user time is way more valuable then machine time. By getting the work done faster you are able to either do more work or go take a break and enjoy life, why do you make the money if not for that
Sage advice that is
AMD 7000x3d launch on Feb 14th.
I guess it is the same as always. Buy when you need, because there will always be something new down the pipeline.
Bobby, I am your guy.
My farm is always avalible for others to use.
Send me a message.
Yeah, 3xxx series threadrippers are old. There is a 5xxx threadripper series now which is much faster and has better single threaded performance, but a 7950x will have better performance for everything except the act of rendering itself, as it has much better single threaded performance than even the latest 5xxx series threadrippers. I run sims on a 7950x because it is a lot faster than the latest threadripper.
- AMD Ryzen™ 9 5950X (72 MB total cache, 16 cores, 32 threads, up to 4.90 GHz Max Boost Clock)
- NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3090, 24 GB GDDR6X
- 128 GB, 4 x 32 GB, DDR4, 3466 MHz, XMP
Only five grand - and then the extra node license
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That is an outdated processor. The 7950x is about 47% faster or somesuch. Not sure if you are into building machines, or know someone who is, but that machine could be built for about 2-3k, (maybe 3.5k depending on GPU prices).
Also the 3090 is old. The 4090 is way faster, and I thought cheaper.
If you want to buy rather than build Puget Systems does very nice build, with excellent quality control, and testing, and they understand our market very well. But they are not cheap. I don’t think they are expensive, but definitely homebrew is way cheaper-- as it always is-- but then you have to be able to support it yourself, etc.