A self-hosted Blender render farm. Workstations, render servers and cloud nodes render one task together: shots are distributed across nodes, work from a node that goes offline is picked up by the others, and the film is assembled when rendering finishes.
Scheduling
Several nodes render one task. Click a stage to jump to it; drag the bar to see rendered frames.
Submitted from Blender; the scene and the files it uses are uploaded to the host.
Features
Submit from the Blender extension. Linked libraries, textures and other dependencies are collected, packed and uploaded.
Work goes out by shot and frame range. A node that frees up takes the second half of the longest remaining segment.
When a node goes offline its rendered frames are kept and the rest continues on other nodes.
Every task update is a version. The shots you tick move to it; the rest stay on theirs.
Each version is assembled into a film when rendering finishes; each shot's segment can be downloaded too.
Workstations, render servers and cloud nodes join one workspace. Storage on this machine, an SMB share or S3-compatible object storage.
Pricing
Every plan has every feature; they differ only in how many devices render at the same time, the host included. Any number of devices can join a workspace; when the slots are full, the rest wait and pick up work as soon as one frees up.
15 devices at once
$21.6 a month
Small studios with a set of dedicated render machines.
BuyPrices exclude tax; sold by Waffo Pancake. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be cancelled any time; quarterly is about 10% off, yearly 25% off. Each workspace gets one free trial: 15 devices for 14 days.
More than 15? Add devices one at a time: email support@danio.app.Buying and licensesTerms of Service
Install
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://danio.app/install.ps1 | iex"
Installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\danio and starts when you sign in. Joining a workspace: copy the command from Devices → Add device on its host.
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