Our Pipeline
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Download completed frames to a designated directory (e.g. local, S3, Dropbox, other).
Selected frames download automatically as they complete, no waiting.

Envoy securely auto downloads your frames as they complete.
Run your fav renderer using as many concurrently running nodes as needed . . . we provide the required licenses
With our transcode node, compile frames into a video file on our servers.
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Supporting sims, dependencies and cloud caching (avoid moving large sim outputs)
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Educational licenses without watermarks
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See HERE for versions supported
Use our calculator to estimate costs. Use our subscription & weekly plans to reduce the cost of large projects.
Download completed frames to a designated directory (e.g. local, S3, Dropbox or other).
Reuse files that you have uploaded; no need to upload unchanged files on subsequent submissions.
Use our 3D software plugins to select a machine count/config; then easily submit to GridMarkets directly from your 3D software interface.
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How it Works
This video how to submit a Houdini render or simulation to the GridMarkets render farm. We describe how to layout efficient networks in both SOPs and ROPs for fire-and-forget sim and render submissions. We also cover some pitfalls and best practices as well as lesser known features.
New Feature: Establish a Job Submission Budget
Now you can establish a budget for any submission and automatically trigger one of three actions if the establish job budget is exceeded. Use this option to control your credit spending by submission. For more information related to this new feature, see HERE.
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1. Render Submit Quickstart
- shows how to submit a render
3. Render Submit ROP
- describes how to manage our render submit ROP
2. Simulation Submit Quickstart
- demonstrates how to submit a Houdini simulation
4. Cloud Cache
- avoid sim data uploads with our cloud cache SOP
Get Started in 2 Steps
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Create an Account - Free Trial
To test our service risk-free, 10 rendering credits will be added to your new account, sufficient to produce roughly 50 frames (assuming 10 minutes/frame). Note that the free credits expire if unused +14 days from account creation.
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Install Envoy/Houdini HDA
GridMarkets' Envoy tool securely manages the upload of project files to our cloud as well as the download of results to the storage location that you designate. See the links that follow to download our setup files, which include Envoy and our Houdini HDA.