“Jud Pratt” recently posted a bunch of video tutorials on how to render from Autodesk Creative Products to the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2), and even more recently he has posted a tutorial on how to render from Maya to the Amazon EC2 Cloud for a fairly cheap rendering solution.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
TUTORIAL:
EC2 Renderfarm: Launching Maya Backburner Render from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
GreenButton also provides cloud rendering support for any cloud based service, including Maya, so be sure to check out the GreenButton interview I conducted from a previous post here. Also check out the other videos Jod has on Backburner’s general use and other Autodesk applications in the same context.
Part 1 on how to set up a Backburner renderfarm for 3DS Max or Maya on Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Computing.
EC2 Renderfarm Part 1 from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
Part 2 on how to set up a Backburner renderfarm for 3DS Max or Maya on Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Computing.
EC2 Renderfarm Part 2 from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
Part 3 on how to set up a Backburner renderfarm for 3DS Max or Maya on Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Computing.
EC2 Renderfarm Part 3 from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
Part 4.1 on how to set up a Backburner renderfarm for 3DS Max or Maya on Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Computing.
EC2 Renderfarm Part 4.1 from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
Part 4.2 on how to set up a Backburner renderfarm for 3DS Max or Maya on Amazon Web Service’s Elastic Computing.
EC2 Renderfarm part 4.2 from Jud Pratt on Vimeo.
