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James Crowther
- Nov 13
- 7 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Oct 18
- 4 min
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....
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James Crowther
- Oct 1
- 4 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Sep 1
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jul 31
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Oct 5, 2021
- 8 min
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...
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carl.douglas.cox
- Jul 13, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jun 24, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jun 8, 2021
- 15 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- May 17, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Apr 8, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 15, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 10, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
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 :)
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James Crowther
- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Dec 31, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Dec 28, 2020
- 4 min
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,...
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James Crowther
- Dec 17, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Dec 16, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Dec 15, 2020
- 3 min
Helping Businesses Render Faster
Crowdrender helps Marathon Hardware build a batch rendering system to help render their product catalogue Soooo, not our usual content,...
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James Crowther
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Nov 24, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Aug 27, 2020
- 1 min
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
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James Crowther
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Aug 12, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Aug 10, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jul 30, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jul 7, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- May 29, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Apr 25, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Apr 22, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Apr 9, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 13, 2020
- 19 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 11, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 25, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jan 29, 2020
- 10 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jan 28, 2020
- 1 min
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...
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James Crowther
- Jan 21, 2020
- 4 min
Tech Update for 2020 | Hardware and Software for Rendering
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!
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James Crowther
- Jan 14, 2020
- 1 min
Part V of the Future of Crowdrender
James provides another update of the blender addon that turns your ordinary computers into a render farm, and as a bonus, shows us around...
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James Crowther
- Jan 14, 2020
- 7 min
Building a Render Farm - Price vs Performance in Blender $$
What is value for money when building a render farm? Where is the sweet spot? We attempt to shed some light on these questions!
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James Crowther
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
In the words of Queen B
Ok, all funny stuff aside, we're still chasing our first goal, and yep, thats still $750 a month, and, we have to put a deadline on it...
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