Reply To: Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Kent Trammell]

@dostovel  This is awesome! You definitely have my rig while I sleep. The dropbox workflow is quite simple actually IF everyone involved has enough space available in their account. The basic (free) plan only offers 2 GB which is most definitely not going to be enough for all the image sequences you’ll be rendering.

Alternatively, Google Drive comes with 15 GB free for anyone with a Google account. That should be doable for rendering your scenes with the community.

If we don’t want to bother with cloud storage like those, we could do it manually. Meaning everyone that wants to contribute downloads a packed .blend of your scene and we all divide the frames evenly, then compress the files and pass them back to you via dropbox or google drive. This process would require more organization and management but wouldn’t be hindered by cloud storage issues.

I suggest we start with a test scene to see if A) the cycles render is really really worth it and B) we can work out the technical kinks of “crowd-rendering” like we’re discussing. I will happily volunteer for this initial test scene! Once we get that working it would just be a matter of others syncing to the dropbox or google drive directory OR downloading the packed scene and manually rendering frames.

I have to switch gears to critiques today for the stream but afterward (or tomorrow) I can help get the system set up. For now look into Google Drive and see if that’s something you already have or want to sign up for.

EDIT: And I like the faster cut idea 👌