<p>You could try:</p>

<ul>
<li>Turning off ray tracing</li>
<li>Lowering the resolution</li>
<li>Turning off soft shadows unless needed </li>
<li>In Blender, use the Simplify option</li>
</ul>

<p>These and others are covered in <a href="http://www.blenderguru.com/13-ways-to-reduce-render-times" rel="nofollow">this blenderguru article</a></p>

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2012-04-11T19:18:12.770Z
2012-04-11T19:18:12.770Z
Dr Mayhem
<p><strong>Some novel ideas</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li>physical: better CPUs, more RAM</li>
  <li>crowdsourcing: render farms &amp; distributed rendering like <a href="http://www.renderfarm.fi/blog/prodigalson/first-cycles-render-ever-renderfarmfi" rel="nofollow">here</a></li>
  <li>knowledge &amp; experience: elegant simple shortcuts -- keep things simple: no smoke or fluid etc CPU-expensive stuff</li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>Perhaps Related, found after some googling but not sure</strong></p>

<blockquote>
  <ol>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/" rel="nofollow">http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm" rel="nofollow">http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://burp.renderfarming.net/" rel="nofollow">http://burp.renderfarming.net/</a></p></li>
  <li><p><a href="http://www.respower.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.respower.com/</a></p></li>
  </ol>
</blockquote>

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2013-06-30T19:13:21.947Z
Renderfarm.fi is reworking their website, the first linked blog post isn't yet migrated to the new platform. Please link to main page http://www.renderfarm.fi instead.
jesterKing
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2012-08-16T16:13:30.570Z
2012-08-16T16:13:30.570Z
hhh
<p>How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.</p>

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2012-06-10T21:47:07.560Z
Better CPUs? You could be more specific on what kind of stuff you actually want to render, but for the tasks they can do at all GPUs are obviously more effective.
leftaroundabout
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2012-07-13T05:00:11.427Z
You have some links to Blender related stuff, but you don't actually say anything about what you are rendering.  It's impossible to offer any advice without any specifics whatsoever.  What's slowing you down?
wrosecrans
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2012-08-06T16:38:10.027Z
another idea -- export in the same format as the source material (in final cut), which will skip rendering/re-encoding. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26174?viewlocale=en_US
timh
<software><linux><animation-rendering><blender>
Options to speed up Hobbyist Rendering?
hhh
# Options to speed up Hobbyist Rendering?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-04-11)

How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.

**Tags:** software, linux, animation-rendering, blender

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Better CPUs? You could be more specific on what kind of stuff you actually want to render, but for the tasks they can do at all GPUs are obviously more effective.  
> **username_2**: You have some links to Blender related stuff, but you don't actually say anything about what you are rendering.  It's impossible to offer any advice without any specifics whatsoever.  What's slowing you down?  
> **username_3**: another idea -- export in the same format as the source material (in final cut), which will skip rendering/re-encoding. See: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA26174?viewlocale=en_US  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2012-04-11. Score: 2

You could try:

* Turning off ray tracing
* Lowering the resolution
* Turning off soft shadows unless needed
* In Blender, use the Simplify option

These and others are covered in [this blenderguru article](http://www.blenderguru.com/13-ways-to-reduce-render-times)


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### Answer by username_0 on 2012-08-16. Score: 1

**Some novel ideas**

> 1. physical: better CPUs, more RAM
> 2. crowdsourcing: render farms & distributed rendering like [here](http://www.renderfarm.fi/blog/prodigalson/first-cycles-render-ever-renderfarmfi)
> 3. knowledge & experience: elegant simple shortcuts -- keep things simple: no smoke or fluid etc CPU-expensive stuff

**Perhaps Related, found after some googling but not sure**

> 1. <http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/distributed-rendering-new-render-options/>
> 2. <http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?86521-How-do-you-set-up-a-render-farm>
> 3. <http://burp.renderfarming.net/>
> 4. <http://www.respower.com/>

> **Comments:**
> **username_5**: Renderfarm.fi is reworking their website, the first linked blog post isn't yet migrated to the new platform. Please link to main page http://www.renderfarm.fi instead.  

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