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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...

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...

Well gosh and dang!! We made another milestone.... First please watch this 👇 Sooo yeah, very, very cool, and thanks heaps to everyone...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eevee has speed and some impressive features, such as the recent SSGI inclusion allowing some form of global illumination. Cycles is a...

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...

Crowdrender is now a render engine in Blender For the longest time, our engine was hidden! Many people have often gotten confused by a...

New Render Farm - Distributed/Network rendering software released by Crowdrender. Make rendering faster in Blender :)

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...

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...

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,...

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...

The very keen amongst those using our addon might have realised that Blender 2.92 alpha refuses to render with Crowdrender. After...

Crowdrender helps Marathon Hardware build a batch rendering system to help render their product catalogue Soooo, not our usual content,...

A rather short message today to announce that a new version of Crowdrender is in early access, available to our development fund...

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...

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...

I wanted to investigate the effects of different amounts of RAM on render performance, specifically using the cycles render engine

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...

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...

To our supporters, you are awesome! Thanks so much for backing us :) We're going to start doing some live streams and making more...

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...

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...

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...

In these challenging times, I want to recognise and thank everyone that has supported our project, on April the 14th we officially passed...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

We're starting a new series documenting the progress of both making our software project sustainable through community funding and how...

Another week gone by, more progress towards our render farm software project being sustainably community funded. We've gone past half way...

This chart shows render performance in Blender of about 100 different CPU models from Intel and AMD. It was compiled using data form...

In this short video, James shares the latest update on the Crowdrender project; including, how our fund raising is tracking and what...

With the threat of Intel moving into the GPU space, rendering hardware is set to be an RGB battle between teams Red, Blue and Green!

James provides another update of the blender addon that turns your ordinary computers into a render farm, and as a bonus, shows us around...

What is value for money when building a render farm? Where is the sweet spot? We attempt to shed some light on these questions!