I have a strange problem. I started rendering for the Pumpkin Challenge yesterday. My first time rendering an animation.
I've already made some adjustments to shorten the time but it should take about 4.5 hours for 350 frames. So I left my PC alone overnight and checked this morning.
I was completely flabbergasted because it had overwritten the first 230? Frames. So it starts at the end, goes backwards to the middle and then plays it properly. (I hope you can understand it)
In the end, no big drama. I save the frames as PNG and don't have to do everything from the beginning but I wonder why it does that. When I started rendering I checked and they were saved correctly. I also checked the camera and the individual frames in the viewport this morning and everything looked fine.
Maybe this is a problem that can occur under certain circumstances.
Has anyone else had experience with FoxRenderFarm or similar? I would like to try it out but I really don't have an overview of the costs involved in such a rendering.
Do I understand correctly that it costs 1.80 $ per hour? If they are fast and can render 1000 frames in 1.2 hours. Then it would be worth it to me.
I just wanted to go in prepared for tonight. There's not much time left for the challenge
Hi Leo,
I don't know what happened, but I suspect that the same thing would have happened when you had used a Renderfarm, whether it was because of a user error, or a Blender bug...
As for the pricing, I haven't found it very clear as to how much you'd end up paying (when I was comparing different Renderfarms), but other members might have more (i.e. some) experience with them.
