I stumbled upon the SheepIt render farm website yesterday. I think I remember it from years ago..It’s basically a website + desktop app to systematically do what we’re doing with your reel renders @dostovel: People register with the website, download the app, and make their system available to render other people’s Blender scenes. It looks like the scene data is kept private (aside from a small thumbnail that appears in the app GUI when a frame is finished – which is kinda fun to see a preview of what you’re rendering).
You can even setup a “team” for designating certain people to prioritize a certain project (like this reel for example). It works on this credit system where rendering other’s projects gains credits and getting your renders done by others costs credits. Pretty cool way to measure giving VS taking in the community.
Has anyone used it before? I’m testing it now by rendering other people’s projects and building up some credits before I submit a project to test myself. Curious if it reliably finishes projects in a reasonable amount of time.
This could be a more official version of what we’re doing.
