How to do Blender Rendering using Amazon AWS’ GPU
Graphic rendering is painful and this is the way to do it seamlessly
Doing 3D modeling is fun.
But when it comes to the rendering process… uhh, it sucks!
A simple 10-second animation that I created using Blender can take ages to render. To be specific, it needs about 5 hours.
Add some nice background, blur effect, camera’s depth of field, and it takes about 1 day straight to render using my laptop.
So I need to find another solution, and then I found about Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Service) that has cloud instances with powerful GPU.
For example, P2 instance from AWS has up to 16 NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPUs.
Here’s the documentation on how I set up Amazon Web Services GPU for Blender rendering.
(This post is inspired by an article from Mikuláš and I came up with the code from HelloWillie for the installation)
You can watch video version of this tutorial on Youtube
Machine Setup
- Amazon EC2: P or G type instances (I use P2 instance p2.xlarge)
- Linux 18.04 LTS as the Amazon Machine Image system
Installing NVIDIA Drivers
Reboot the instance and then test with nvidia-smi command to check whether the installation success or not.
Installing Blender
Script to Enable GPU Rendering
Example render command
That’s all. That simple!
Using AWS cloud rendering, I can speed up my rendering time up to 93% — from 10 minutes per frame became 40 seconds per frame.
Here is one of my projects that rendered using AWS:
*This is my just-for-fun project beside of Saintif website
Hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to comment below.
