Guides for Blender artists
Command-line rendering, optimisation, the .blend format, and how to build a farm of your own. Written to be useful whether or not you ever render with us.
Building Your Own Blender Render Farm: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to build a local Blender render farm: hardware and network requirements, project prep, and step-by-step setup for CrowdRender and Flamenco on Blender 4.4.
28 min read
Advanced Rendering Optimization Strategies in Blender
Advanced techniques for cutting Blender render times without losing quality: Cycles light sampling and shader tricks, EEVEE tuning, and heavy Geometry Nodes.
27 min read
Deep Dive into Blender's ID Properties
How Blender's ID Properties work under the hood: the C struct, how custom properties are stored in .blend files, the data types, and the Python gotchas.
17 min read
Understanding Blender's .blend File Format and DNA/RNA Compatibility
How the DNA/RNA system behind Blender's .blend file format lets decades-old files open in the latest release: block structure, SDNA schema, version patching.
21 min read
Mastering the Blender Command Line Interface (CLI): The Ultimate Guide to Automation and Headless Operations
A practical reference for the Blender CLI: headless rendering flags, argument order, Python scripting, logging, and the mistakes that cost you an afternoon.
11 min read
How to Speed Up Rendering in Blender (Cycles & EEVEE)
How to cut Blender render times without losing quality: GPU setup, Cycles sampling and light bounces, EEVEE settings, and when a render farm is worth the money.
31 min read
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