My anims come at 4000+ euros there, so I long time ago I figured Rebus (or any render farm) is not the way to go. It seems to be ok price for fast animation (if someone already has 5-10min. per frame on single i7), but anything else, it’s just money gone into trash.
Bot it’s almost universally accepted as being cheap so I really wonder, what do people render on it.
expensive? I found it extremely cheap. I am not doing animations usually. But having high res render quickly for 7-15euros max is really funny price for me.
Not mentioning the hassle with managing PC’s at home, licences, noise and heat. I sure want to have a few spare machines at home for test. I do sometimes use small 40machine renderfarm which my friends have, but for big scale commercial project, renderfarm is the right choice. I will simply put extra line in my quote to my client as “External renderfarm” and let clients pay extra for that. Simple.
bucket engine - it render the image until all passes are done but here you not know the render costs
progressive - you cen set the render costs in advace!
the beast eat the scene until all euro are spend - you get the highest possible passes worth the money
how many passes denpend on the scene and resolution
you have 2 choise - best quality but not know the price and konw the price but not the quality
i guess monday i am done with all my testings and i go live
Simple…ok. 7-15 euros for still is your price, Peter Guthrie mentioned in Venice around 70 euros per still, which is close to price I found to get. The moment you quote your client additional 4000-12 000 euros simply for rendering, you realize you can just buy the HW for it and keep it for additional projects as well, thus keeping the value, not only transfering it.