The best cloud rendering service for Katana and Redshift

Katana is one of the most popular, fast and formidable tools for look development and lighting, tackling creative challenges with ferocity and ease. It arms artists with the creative freedom and scalability to exceed the needs of today’s most demanding CG-rendering projects.

Redshift is a biased, first fully GPU-accelerated renderer. Slowly, it becomes one of the best choices for the specific demands of contemporary high-end production rendering thanks to its fast rendering and rich features.

In this article, iRender guides you on why choosing Redshift for Katana, the system requirements and the best cloud rendering service for Redshift.

Redshift only started to support Katana in 2014. Since then, it’s still released many updates for Katana, but not so popular like other application like Cinema 4D, Houdini, Maya or 3ds Max.

However, Redshift for Katana has many features which helps you achieve better looks for your rendering. For example:

Redshift for Katana supports all the rendering workflows available in Katana, including the > Live, Preview and Disk rendering.

Redshift for Katana supports the Katana cameras, and you will need to creat it using the CameraCreate node or imported from anAlembic file.

You can expose all the Redshift lights in Katana as a set of light shaders, or use GafferThree node in Katana to create and manage all your scene lights. This plugin supports the standard Katana workflow to define the lights and shadows objects linking, and supports the Redshift mesh light feature, including the mesh preview in the Katana viewer using a points grid.

All the Redshift shader nodes are exposed in the Katana Material and NetworkMaterial nodes. In both cases the material is attached to any object using the MaterialAssign node. In the simplest case the material is assigned to a single object. A more common case would be to assign the material to multiple locations either all grouped together or distributed through the scene and identified through a defined commonality.

Moeover, the plugin has a custom RedshiftOpenVDBVolume node to support the rendering and visualization of OpenVDB volume files.

Other features worth mentioning are UV maps and other attributes, delegated plugin to extract the polymesh objects or subdmesh type locations, ability of extraction of the curves or point clouds, rendering curves as Redshift strands, etc.

This is the minimum requirements for both applications.

iRender provide to you high performance and configurable server system for 3D rendering, AI Training, VR & AR, simulation, etc. We believe that design and creative activities are private and personal that only you artists will know what you want with your animation. That’s the reason why we provide remote servers so that you can install any software you need, and do whatever you like with your project.

You will only need to install your software for the first time, and next time you connect to the computer everything is ready for use.

Because Redshift for Katana can utilize the power of GPU rendering, we have established some of the fastest server packages (Redshift Cloud Rendering Service) with RTX4090 and RTX3090.

iRender – One of the best cloud rendering service for Redshift

You can see that our configurations above are all more than enough to have a project in Katana and Redshift renderer run smoothly. Processor is an AMD Ryzen Threadripper processor. RAM is 256GB and Storage is NVMe SSD with 2TB. With those configs, you can be assured that your scene will load faster, more stable when running with multiple software.

Come to the most important factor: Graphics card (GPU). Because Redshift can utilize GPU rendering power, we choose to provide RTX 3090 and RTX 4090. You can refer to this article to see how Redshift performs on these graphics card, especially RTX 4090 being the fastest when it comes to Redshift rendering.

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If you have more GPUs, the render time will reduce more. However, don’t expect a perfectly linear reduction.

At iRender, we provide you more support than just those config.

iRender offers a powerful and free file transfer tool: iRender drive. With fast file transfer speed, large data capacity, and completely free. You can transfer all the necessary data into our iRender drive tool at any time without connecting to the server. The data will be automatically synchronized in the Z drive inside the server, ready for you to use.

The tool is also integrated into iRender GPU app, an all in one application where you can free your workflow from accessing iRender website, and just have to work on the iRender GPU app.

Beside hourly rental, you can always save from 10% to 20% with our Rental plan feature. For those who’s in need of a server for more than a day, or have extremely large projects, we advise to choose a daily/ weekly/monthly rental package. The discount is attractive (up to 10% for daily packages, 20% on weekly and monthly packages), and you don’t have to worry about over-charging if you forget to shutdown the server.

With us, it does not matter where you are present – as long as you are connected to the internet, you can access and enjoy the 24/7 rendering services that we provide, and if you meet any issue, our real human 24/7 support team is always ready to support you.

When you use iRender, you can free your computer during the hardest and most arduous part – rendering. That is also the reason that Render Farm service is becoming more and more popular and essential. However, as far as we know, iRender is proud to be one of the very few rendering service that support powerful RTX4090 and RTX3090 for Katana and Redshift with relatively reasonable price.

With the above advantages and the machine configuration package that iRender has just released, we believe that Katana and Redshift users will have the most comfortable, quickest, and most effective rendering time.

Right now, our users are free to use one of our Redshift license on the remote machine. You just need to create a machine, install Katana and Redshift, and activate Redshift license via our license app. Regarding Katana or other DCC apps, kindly install and add your own license.

Register an account today to experience our service. Or contact us via WhatsApp: (+84) 916806116 for advice and support.

Thank you & Happy Rendering!

Source: foundry.com, maxon.net