Rendering

We have decided not to use the render farm to render our film. This for many reasons:

1. It does not take too long to render on our computers and the maximum length of a single shot is about 10 seconds.

2. I have found rendering in Vray quite temperamental. If a shot is rendering how it should be looking, then the render farm will not know so it will carry on with the render and therefore waste us time.

3. We can keep an eye on the rendering when it is in our own homes. Me and James have computers that have really fast processors so we can render a shot, make the image sequence into footage and composite the shot together within a few hours. We can tell when it is done so set up the next shot and start compositing the previous shot all at the same time.

I think with all the problems we are having with Vray and rendering, it is not an ideal solution to use the render farm. If we find a more stable way of rendering in Vray so we can guarantee that it will work each time so it is just a case of straight rending, then the render farm would be more beneficial to us.