The digital animation award deadline is fast approaching.
Rendering is something that can take a significant amount of time, especially if you lack the hardware for it. For those of us using Blender, however, I have a way that we can take some of that computing load off by bringing coopertition to animation.
Some of you may be familiar with sheepit which is a free collaborative render farm that distributes the workload between users. Usually this is used by rendering for other users for a time and gaining points, but there is also the team solution. Sheepit users can join teams and check the ‘render my team’s projects first’ in the scheduler settings in the user profile. This way, users on the team can all help each other without waiting to generate points (nothing wrong with points, it just takes more time).
I have created the team ‘FRC Computing Power’ for anyone who wants to join. It is (currently) at the very bottom of the teams list. If you want to join, comment your number or something not random.
One more thing, Sheepit supports Cycles and Eevee but not any third party engine.