user2221: How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.

user2221: Some novel ideas


physical: better CPUs, more RAM
crowdsourcing: render farms & distributed rendering like here
knowledge & experience: elegant simple shortcuts -- keep things simple: no smoke or fluid etc CPU-expensive stuff


Perhaps Related, found after some googling but not sure


http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm
http://burp.renderfarming.net/
http://www.respower.com/



user674: You could try:

Turning off ray tracing
Lowering the resolution
Turning off soft shadows unless needed 
In Blender, use the Simplify option

These and others are covered in this blenderguru article

2221: <p>How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.</p>
 2221: <p><strong>Some novel ideas</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li>physical: better CPUs, more RAM</li>
  <li>crowdsourcing: render farms &amp; distributed rendering like <a href="http://www.renderfarm.fi/blog/prodigalson/first-cycles-render-ever-renderfarmfi" rel="nofollow">here</a></li>
  <li>knowledge &amp; experience: elegant simple shortcuts -- keep things simple: no smoke or fluid etc CPU-expensive stuff</li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>Perhaps Related, found after some googling but not sure</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm" rel="nofollow">http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://burp.renderfarming.net/" rel="nofollow">http://burp.renderfarming.net/</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.respower.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.respower.com/</a></p></li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>
 674: <p>You could try:</p>

<ul>
<li>Turning off ray tracing</li>
<li>Lowering the resolution</li>
<li>Turning off soft shadows unless needed </li>
<li>In Blender, use the Simplify option</li>
</ul>

<p>These and others are covered in <a href="http://www.blenderguru.com/13-ways-to-reduce-render-times" rel="nofollow">this blenderguru article</a></p>
