Network render management software for 3ds Max and Maya

Autodesk Support

Oct 8, 2023

Products and versions covered

Issue:

Network render management software for 3ds Max and Maya to use on a render farm for distributed rendering tasks. 

Solution:

A render farm is a group of networked computers devoted to rendering images, used typically in the production of 3D films, games and other animations. Network render management programs allow 3D artists to submit rendering jobs from 3ds Max, Maya and other software to the render farm so that complex rendering tasks (both animations and high-resolution still images) can be distributed among multiple PCs.

The following applications listed here support both 3ds Max and Maya unless otherwise specified. Autodesk makes no claims or specific endorsements regarding any 3rd-party network rendering software. For more information, please contact the respective manufacturers. 
  • Backburner – Autodesk (Standalone for 3ds Max and Maya. No longer officially supported for Maya, nor officially certified to work under Windows 10 for 3ds Max or Maya. Job submission sizes limited to 2 gigabytes maximum, including scene assets.)
  • ButterflyNetRender – Liquid Dream Apps (Offers free network rendering for 1 workstation and 2 render nodes.)
  • Deadline – Amazon Web Services (AWS) Thinkbox Software (Offers free network rendering for 1 workstation and up to 10 render nodes or workers.)
  • Muster – Virtual Vertex (Offers free network rendering for 4 render nodes.)
  • OpenCue – Google Cloud/Sony Pictures Imageworks (Free, open-source network render management software; includes plugins for Maya. Does not support 3ds Max yet.)
  • Pandora – Pandora | Prism (Free, open-source network management software.)
  • Pulze Network Render Manager (3ds Max only. Offers 30-day free trial version.)
  • Qube! – PipelineFX (Offers free 30-day trial version)
  • Royal Render – Royal Render
  • Rush – Seriss
  • Smedge – Uberware (Offers license-free rendering for up to 4 nodes)
  • SquidNet – Squidnet Software (Offers free network rendering for 2 render nodes.)
  • Tractor – Tractor 2 

 

Products:

3ds Max; Maya; Maya LT; Arnold;

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