Re: best practices for sending a large ARNOLD scene to a render farm vendor?

[Greg Punchatz]

Sorry, I thought I sent this to the Arnold list... so I added Arnold to 
the subject line.  I am sure someone here could help too;)

Hello all,
We have a big job that we are most likely going to have to reach out 
to an outside render farm vendor.

What is the most bullet proof way to send them a scene to render?  I 
am assuming an ass file or files would be the way to go.  Having never 
done this my self I have a few .ass noobe questions..

Can a single ass file of the scene contain the animation or is per frame?

Are Softimage and custom shaders compiled in the ass fille, or would 
the vendor need our work group and a zillion cuts of soft to render with?

Textures I assume must be sent along with the .ass file, or is there a 
way to include them in the .ass?

Things to watch out for?

Thanks guys and gals.
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*Greg Punchatz*
*Sr. Creative Director*
Janimation
214.823.7760
www.janimation.com <http://www.janimation.com>
On 3/18/2013 6:25 PM, Gene Crucean wrote: