VFX Render Outsourcing to Google Cloud
Working on my VFX Thesis has proven that no matter what Moore’s Law may state, we’ll just keep adding more ‘stuff’ in, and the render times will never improve.
So, rather than buy a new PC, or cross-link a GPU that cannot render everything due to limitations in V-Ray (whyyyyy?!), I have decided to use an outsourced render farm.
Most are kind of expensive, but Google seems to have a few options different from nearly all of them, and claims to be approximately 40% less costly.
With companies such as MPC on-board, scaling capacity to 15,000 cores, as needed (an expense that was often a purchase that ended up closing so many VFX houses, because it would never amortize to make fiscal sense), I thought I would give it a try.
The link is here for you below, and I would love to hear how it may have worked out for you, or even how it didn’t.
Zync Render, now a part of Google Cloud
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/media/
You will likely also need to install Zync Render, if you don’t have it already:
https://www.zyncrender.com/
