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Blender Cycles Cloud Render Farming Using AWS, Deadline and Brenda

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Learn about some cool tools available to help build your own affordable render farm in the cloud. In this session we cover Amazon Web Services concepts and then we jump into how we can utilize AWS with Blender friendly commercial software from Thinkbox Software and then how to do the same with a set of free and open source Python scripts called Brenda which were developed specifically for Blender.

Unleash the computing power of the cloud and think BIG with your next Blender project.

This session was originally delivered at the Los Angeles Blender Westside Users Group (LA.Blend). If you’re in L.A., join our email list for upcoming meeting details: http://socalblender.org/

Session Links:
Amazon Web Services (AWS):
http://aws.amazon.com/
ThinkBox Software Deadline:
http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline/
Brenda Software via James Yonan’s GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/jamesyonan/brenda
James Yonan – Build Your Own Low-Cost Yet Highly Scalable Blender Render Farm (BConf 2013)

BrendaPro Site (Todd McIntosh’s Brenda Discussion Forum)
http://brendapro.com/
CloudBerry Labs Explorer (Windows Freeware S3 Transfer Software):
http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free-amazon-s3-explorer-cloudfront-IAM.aspx
Cycles Island Revisited Volume 2 by Pred:

Nick Brunas Winter Special Tutorial:

Creating The One Ring Tutorial From Jovlem:


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18 responses to “Blender Cycles Cloud Render Farming Using AWS, Deadline and Brenda”

  4. Fantastic talk. Yeah, I know this video is ancient now. But I installed
    virtualbox and Ubuntu 16.10 just to test out brenda. Got an amazon aws
    account going. And it all still works, with a bit of lib tweaking.
    You'll want to build your own ami install with the same OS distro and
    tools you're launching with. Big note, OpenToonz runs off command line.
    So you can batch OT rendering too. Also, Natron, which is a big deal if
    you want to render HDRI color graded footage.

    I don't think many people are using this any more. The old brendapro website is long gone. But spot prices are still silly cheap. How did brenda just die like that?

  6. Great tutorial. This has really given me a lot more insight into how aws works and i think it's an amazing solution for not chewing up my laptop while trying to render out projects.

    I had a quick question about your "brenda-tool ssh tail log" command you seem to get an output of "Remaining: 0:00:00:00" etc. that doesn't seem to be present in my output. was that a custom adjustment you made? The brendapro forum seems to be down so I can't research it there.

    Also, do you have any idea about Baking animations using brenda or something like it? is that possible? particle sims like those that use smoke and liquids take an extremely long time to bake and id love to see how to throw that up into a render cloud as well.

    You're awesome, and i am grateful for you putting this tutorial together. The documentation on github is very approachable, but I don't think i would have even made the attempt if i hadn't seen your video, so I thank you for that.

  8. Stirling, Thanks for putting this together. This looks really impressive and I'm looking forward to trying this out. I love that you take advantage of spot prices on AWS. It might be interesting to rewrite the Brenda scripts to run on Azure since you get a lot of free compute time there with an account. It would be a pretty ambitious job though.

  11. Excellent Video Stirling. I'm not doing anything that fancy on AWS I am using Blender with LUXRENDER. Since luxrender has built in network management I have been able to use the 1st free node as a master and the 2nd free node as a slave, it seems to provide easy and powerful results. I haven't tried with a 32 core system but i'm sure it'll be great once I do.

  13. What I want to see is a crypto-currency based around this technology. Instead of using mass amount of computer power to de-crypt near useless passwords use the computer power to rent to somebody who wants it. You get paid the currency to use your computer and you the currency to pay for the privilege to harness that power

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