Integration with RenderPal V2
RenderPal V2 is a third-party application used in the CGIFilms pipeline as its in-house Render Management System.
It is designed to automate and streamline the entire process of distributed rendering. It acts as a render manager, taking care of the rendering pipeline from the artist’s workstation to the numerous rendering nodes, supporting a wide range of popular renderers and compositing applications like Maya, Nuke, Houdini, and Blender.
The Piggy Builders pipeline uses the RenderPal system for two main functions :
- For making high qulity animation previews (Playblasts) in EEVEE with predefined settings. These rendered preview file are sent to the client for feedback. It is used by both the
LayoutandAnimationdepartments. - For exporting the caches of final animation files once approved by the client.
NOTE :
While the Render team can create jobs for both these processes, it is not advisable to rely on the manual process. Hence, all jobs are submitted to the Farm via a RenderPal submitter.
The submitter option is built into the CGIF Blender Addon for the artists to submit their work files for exporting playblasts. Whereas for submitting the cache export jobs, the Render team uses the Batch Actions Tool as it allows submitting multiple files in a single request.
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