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Signing up for an account at RenderFriend is easy. Simply review the acccount types below and choose which one best suits your needs. Initiate a payment and we will be notified immediately to set up your account. To expedite things even faster (and isn't "faster" the point of a render farm?), just contact us in advance via email, phone or SKYPE and we can have your account details all set up and ready to go. For special requests project pricing, just call us about the details and we'll get you covered.

To ensure a high level of render service, we limit the number of our Premier Friends at any one time. What is a Premier Friend you ask? See below about the account details. Also check the Premier Friends status to the right. Again, if you have any special requests or urgent render needs, just get in contact with us and we'll get you covered. We're good like that Wink

Once your account is set up you will receive the FTP information for your private account. You will also receive the instructions on how to access the Net Render web interface for Cinema4D directly. Soon we will be using a customized render management solution to allow you to manage multi-software projects.

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Our Pricing Philosophy

As a long time 3D freelancer, one of the things that was important to me was being able to predict my costs on a project so I can pass those along to the client. At RenderFriend, our pricing structure is based on fixed costs so you can create your project budget without a lot of "what-ifs". The Ghz/hour pricing method is fine, but it's not always a "known" final number. If your project costs less than the estimate...great. If it costs more then you need to either absorb it or go back to your client. I much prefer knowing my costs in advance without any major surprises.

Student Discounts -- 50% Off*

college student

RenderFriend sympathizes with the plight of strapped students using 3D in their studies. That's why we are offering the ability for students and educators to perform a Large Format Still Image Render or a Per-Frame Render at 50% off. Simply email a copy of your student ID card or Educator's ID to us. Let us know you would like to set up an Academic Account for a project. You can then use the Customized Payment option to pre-pay for your project and you can begin.

PRIVACY NOTICE: At RenderFriend, we are committed to protecting your privacy. All eligibility information you provide us is securely stored until no longer valid. All expired eligibility information is destroyed by RenderFriend and your information will never be shared with or sold to any third party at any time. Guaranteed.

*Academic Discount applies only to Large Format Image renders and Per-Frame Renders, does not include HD High Def Renders or Premier Subscriptions.

Premier Status

This is the current status of our Premier Friend's schedule. For quality assurance we limit the number of Premier Friends to 5. Individual render projects can always still be submitted and run if you are not a Premier Friend.

P-Friend 1: Expires October 2, 2008
P-Friend 2: Expires October 3, 2008
 P-Friend 3: AVAILABLE
 P-Friend 4: AVAILABLE

If all time slots are filled, you can pre-pay in advance for the next available time slot to guarantee a position for a full month. Contact us first and we'll get you locked in.

Premier Friend 100+

The Premier Account lets you have 24/7 access to all available nodes on the network for a continuous 30 day period of time.

We limit this account to 4 at a time so that there is ample bandwidth for all.

Unlimited CPUs*

Available software:

Cinema4D, VrayForC4D
(plus all C4D related plug ins of course)

$950 max.

Hi Def Per-Frame Render

No time limit for one project

Hi Def = resolution larger than 1024

Output to your private FTP account

Unlimited CPUs*

Available software:

Cinema4D, VrayForC4D, Modo and After Effects

$0.75 / frame

set up included

Large Format Image

Large Format Image

Up to 24 hours render time

Unlimited CPUs*

Available software:

Cinema4D, VrayForC4D & Modo

$120

Compare to $0.25 cents / Ghz hour:

Most farms will charge by the Ghz/hour method. Let's say you have 8 cores running at 3.0 Ghz., that gives you 24 Ghz available per hour. At $0.25 per Ghz/hour, that will cost you $6. On the farm let's put your high rez image on 10 machines times 8 cores at 3.0. That is now 240 Ghz available per hour. An image that would take 1 hour on that setup will cost $60. An average high rez still image on a farm will take between 1-4 hours to run so you could be charged between $60 to $240 for that image. If the image would take 8 hours on the farm you could be charged $480. Our pricing allows your image to take up to 24 hours for only $120. At $0.25 cents per Ghz hour that would be upwards of $1,440!

Customized Payment

This option is used for submitting a

customized payment amounts for any special

services, shipping costs or any other

specialized requests. 

Per-Frame Render

Set Up Included

$0.40 per frame w/300 frame min.

Unlimited CPUs*

Available software:

Cinema4D, VrayForC4D, Modo & After Effects

$0.40 / frame

If your average render time per frame exceeds 2 hours, we will consider your project at the Hi-Def rate.

Overview

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All accounts come with a private FTP server for file uploading & downloading. Final results can also be delivered via DVD & CD for a small upcharge.
All projects are personally overseen and managed. Each one is processed on a first come/first served basis in the server queue.

Please bake or freeze any plugins you have to ensure that you get the desired results. Even though we will maintain all the most commonly used plug ins on the farm, slight differences in floating point calculations can make a difference in the final render so whatever baking you can do will help to ensure the expected result.

*Unlimited CPUs refers to all available CPUs that are not in use at the time by other RenderFriend clients. However, we cap our client usage to no more than 4 at any single time so preserve quality bandwidth.