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V0.7.0 - our render farm software's next feature update
Some big upgrades to our render farm software 🎉 As you can see from the image below, we've been busy in the month of November, getting...
James Crowther
Nov 27, 202411 min read
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Crowdrender Render Farm Software Update V0.6.7
This article covers the V0.6.7 patch update to our render farm software for Blender.
James Crowther
Oct 25, 20243 min read
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Headless Server on Mac
This is showing one way to run CR Headless Server on Mac. First we need to find the relevant path to your Blender installation. The bold...
waxwork08snoozes
May 29, 20241 min read
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Blender Render Farm Addon Updated 🎁💓🎉
With thanks to all our users, and especially those who support us, we're stoked to let you know that we've got another update for our...
James Crowther
May 7, 20245 min read
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Blender 4.0 is here | we updated our 3d rendering addon to support it
Blender 4.0 and our 3d rendering addon - quick overview Our 3d rendering addon is designed to speed up rendering for Blender's cycles and...
James Crowther
Nov 17, 20236 min read
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October update for our 3d Rendering | Distributed Rendering plugin for Blender
Welcome to the October update for our little 3d rendering | distributed rendering addon project for Blender!! First, oh sh&*t it’s...
James Crowther
Nov 13, 20237 min read
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New Release - V0.6.4 | 3d Rendering addon for blender
How does CrowdRender help with 3d Rendering in Blender? This might be your first time coming across our project, if not, skip ahead....
James Crowther
Oct 18, 20234 min read
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September Update
Welcome to the September (ok I was a day late, again!) newsletter! Here’s the wrap up of what we did in September 2023 Imminent V0.6.4...
James Crowther
Oct 1, 20234 min read
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We're going to replace our forum, blog and main site
Ok, so, you may or may not have noticed our forum is a bit creaky and sometimes feels lonely. Some of that is on us, it takes a lot of...
James Crowther
Sep 1, 20233 min read
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What's coming for the remainder of 2023?
V0.7.0, our next feature release Our next release is coming before the end of the year. It is taking a while, here's why, what's coming...
James Crowther
Jul 31, 20233 min read
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Making Blender Faster with Crowdrender V0.4.1
Watch this short video to see whats new! Prefer to read? Then scroll down to see the highlights of the new version :) Whats new? Firstly...
James Crowther
Oct 5, 20218 min read
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Pi Farm on ARM
Don't mind the dust! This is a small project I started a little while back to see if I could make a personal render farm that was...
carl.douglas.cox
Jul 13, 20213 min read
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V0.3.0 Unlocked!!!
Well gosh and dang!! We made another milestone.... First please watch this 👇 Sooo yeah, very, very cool, and thanks heaps to everyone...
James Crowther
Jun 24, 20213 min read
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eGPUs and my MacBook Pro 🥔 tato
So, for a while now, I've been thinking of upgrading, I bought a MacBook Pro way back in 2016. I use it for almost everything and though...
James Crowther
Jun 8, 202115 min read
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V0.3.2 is out! Support for Blender 2.93, 3.0, Apple M1 and Cycles-X
So, new version is out and as a result, V0.2.10 has been made freely available. V0.2.10 supports Blender 2.83 through to 2.92 and is...
James Crowther
Jun 4, 20213 min read
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V0.3.1 is out! Support for Blender 2.93, 3.0
So, new version is out and as a result, V0.2.9 has been made freely available. V0.2.9 supports Blender 2.91, so we're slowly creeping...
James Crowther
May 17, 20213 min read
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Docs update for V0.3.0!
You heard it right folks :) we've finally updated the docs for V0.3.0 and I guess this also means we're officially launching this version...
James Crowther
Apr 8, 20212 min read
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We were at World Blender Meetup Day :D
It was a hoot, here's what we presented on :) Procedural Clouds... again! Yeah, it was fun the first time, we did do a video tutorial on...
James Crowther
Mar 20, 20211 min read
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Rendering & Ram, How does Frequency, number of channels and capacity affect ray tracing in Blender?
A while back I made a video about testing a simple upgrade, making my 8GB DDR3 PC a 16GB DDR3 PC to test what the performance...
James Crowther
Mar 15, 20217 min read
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Combining Eevee and cycles with Crowdrender
Eevee has speed and some impressive features, such as the recent SSGI inclusion allowing some form of global illumination. Cycles is a...
James Crowther
Feb 24, 20212 min read
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Procedural Clouds in Blender 2.9+
Rendering done in cycles The first in a new series of tutorials that are available in early access for our dev fund, yeah, its another...
James Crowther
Feb 18, 20211 min read
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New UX for Rendering in Crowdrender
Crowdrender is now a render engine in Blender For the longest time, our engine was hidden! Many people have often gotten confused by a...
James Crowther
Feb 10, 20213 min read
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V0.2.10 released, V0.2.7 made freely available
New Render Farm - Distributed/Network rendering software released by Crowdrender. Make rendering faster in Blender :)
James Crowther
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Support for Blender 2.92 in early access... and happy new year :)
A very warm well wishing to you all reading this. Its now 2021 and hoping its going to be a much better year than last, or at least break...
James Crowther
Jan 14, 20213 min read
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Celebrating reaching our first mini goal - thanks everyone :)
We literally reached our mini goal with 48 hours of 2020 left! With the year we've had, honestly I'm relieved. But I don't want this to...
James Crowther
Dec 31, 20201 min read
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2 More subs and we're unlocking another version :)
Yep, we're just a couple more subs away from unlocking V0.2.6! First, whether you've just joined up or have been supporting us a while,...
James Crowther
Dec 28, 20204 min read
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OMG!! Crowdrender Dev fund hits 200 Subscribers :D
A very difficult and strange year is closing out on a positive note for one little software project :) Lets keep this short, we've got...
James Crowther
Dec 17, 20202 min read
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Support for Blender 2.92 is Coming
The very keen amongst those using our addon might have realised that Blender 2.92 alpha refuses to render with Crowdrender. After...
James Crowther
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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Helping Businesses Render Faster
Crowdrender helps Marathon Hardware build a batch rendering system to help render their product catalogue Soooo, not our usual content,...
James Crowther
Dec 15, 20203 min read
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V0.2.9 In early access - support for Blender 2.91
A rather short message today to announce that a new version of Crowdrender is in early access, available to our development fund...
James Crowther
Dec 8, 20202 min read
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V0.2.8 In Early Access - Support for Optix!!
Although a bit tardy in announcing this (the build has been available on the website for a few weeks now), we're happy to say that we've...
James Crowther
Nov 24, 20201 min read
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The Art of Paul Hartsuyker
Some cool pics with a cool story It must have been well over a year since I and Paul started talking via e-mail. Paul got in touch with...
James Crowther
Nov 16, 20202 min read
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Upgrading RAM and its effects on Render Performance
I wanted to investigate the effects of different amounts of RAM on render performance, specifically using the cycles render engine
James Crowther
Aug 27, 20201 min read
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Live PC Workstation Build
Hello everyone! Well, we're almost there, we tried to do this a week ago and our parts weren't ready but now they are (we hope) and so...
James Crowther
Aug 20, 20201 min read
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Streaming this weekend :D
For all our lovely supporters†, you're invited to share in the bodacious event we're hosting over this coming weekend. For the first time...
James Crowther
Aug 12, 20201 min read
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Supporter Live Streaming
To our supporters, you are awesome! Thanks so much for backing us :) We're going to start doing some live streams and making more...
James Crowther
Aug 10, 20201 min read
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July 2020 Project Update
Its been a while since we last updated everyone with what we're working on, int his video we give a quick update of what we're doing...
James Crowther
Jul 30, 20201 min read
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New! V0.2.7, and rendering in blender 2.83
Well, Blender has a LTS release and we've made an update to the early access builds, we've also released V0.2.3 as a publicly available...
James Crowther
Jul 7, 20201 min read
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First Look at Adaptive Sampling in Blender
Since Blender 2.83 was first made available (and now 2.90), Stefan Werner's adaptive sampling in the cycles engine in Blender has been...
James Crowther
May 29, 20201 min read
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We did it :D !!! Development fund reaches first Goal!
In these challenging times, I want to recognise and thank everyone that has supported our project, on April the 14th we officially passed...
James Crowther
Apr 25, 20201 min read
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How to use multiple computers to render scenes in Blender with external textures, HDRI's etc
Ok, so I have to admit, I kind of suck at Live Streams, this was meant to be a live stream, but my setup kept failing, so, here is a...
James Crowther
Apr 22, 20201 min read
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LIVE STREAM !! - New patch updates - Fixes for Support for Denoising, Cryptomatte, Mantaflow
Hey guys, really excited to let you know that we're going to be streaming real soon :), James will be going over some new patch updates...
James Crowther
Apr 9, 20201 min read
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We're presenting at World Blender meetup day - You're invited!
So, we'll be presenting at 4:30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time :) and you're invited to hang out with us as we delve into the facts...
James Crowther
Mar 14, 20201 min read
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Should you buy a 3990X for rendering in blender?
When the 3990X dropped in February of this year, it certainly landed with a thud. But is it a good purchase for rendering? Is that even a...
James Crowther
Mar 13, 202019 min read
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We levelled up :D (Re)Introducing Martin!
Martin is an original member of the Crowdrender founders. He's a dev with 20 years plus experience and is now taking aim at the first...
James Crowther
Mar 11, 20201 min read
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Thanks Guys!!!
As we near our first target in our campaign to be community supported, we wanted to say thanks and share a bit about our vision... but...
James Crowther
Mar 4, 20201 min read
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New Render Farm System February Update
We're starting a new series documenting the progress of both making our software project sustainable through community funding and how...
James Crowther
Feb 25, 20201 min read
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Future of Crowdrender Part VII
Another week gone by, more progress towards our render farm software project being sustainably community funded. We've gone past half way...
James Crowther
Feb 17, 20201 min read
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What CPUs crush blender rendering?
This chart shows render performance in Blender of about 100 different CPU models from Intel and AMD. It was compiled using data form...
James Crowther
Jan 29, 202010 min read
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Future of Crowdrender part VI
In this short video, James shares the latest update on the Crowdrender project; including, how our fund raising is tracking and what...
James Crowther
Jan 28, 20201 min read
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