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Using Blender or Luxrender and need some serious horsepower for a render, but don’t own a renderfarm?  Well good news! vSwarm is attempting to bring the power of tools like Seti@Home and Folding@Home to render farms, allowing users worldwide to install a simple client on their machine and harnessing their unused compute time.

Currently in alpha, just install the client and let it run to start earning credits that you can then cash in to use for your own render jobs!  It’s still a bit quirky and in early alpha, but it does work (most of the time). Hit up their site for registration details, downloads, and instructions.

vSwarm: Free Render Farm – Cloud Computing for Rendering.

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A new physically-based renderer is on the scene called Luxrender.  What separates this one from the others, you ask?  This one is GPL, Open-Source.

LuxRender is a new, open-source, free software rendering system for physically correct, unbiased image synthesis. Rendering with LuxRender means simulating the flow of light according to physical equations. This produces realistic, photographic-quality images.

You can download it from their site, v0.6, with plugins for Maya, Blender, XSI, and Cinema4D.

via Lux Render.

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