In part 2 of this Blender tutorial I will show you how to speed up your blender renders using a free GPU on Google Colab and OPTIX. Google Colab is an online Jupyter notebook service for running python code and google provides users with free GPUs and TPUs which can be used for rendering Blender files very quickly. In this updated and extended tutorial, I will show you in a few, very easy steps how to write the code that you will need in order to render your blender files on the cloud. Once the code is written, it is a simple process of just uploading your blend file to Google Drive and running the script. In this updated video I will show how to render both animations and still frames using OPTIX and Cycles Thanks to @fodevaux for the useful suggestions! Link to Part 1: https://youtu.be/lEW7efy_aiY Here is the link to the code: https://github.com/microSingularity/GoogleColabBlender_2.git 00:00 Introduction 01:03 Important Points 01:37 Setting up your blender file for animations 05:12 Upload to Google Drive 05:30 Writing Code in Google Colab 10:00 Configure the GPU 10:40 Run the Code 14:46 Finished Animation 15:39 Packaging Textures in Blender File 18:24 Render a single image 21:52 Important Points about Google Colab 22:30 Close Google Colab Session
In part 2 of this Blender tutorial I will show you how to speed up your blender renders using a free GPU on Google Colab and OPTIX. Google Colab is an online Jupyter notebook service for running python code and google provides users with free GPUs and TPUs which can be used for rendering Blender files very quickly. In this updated and extended tutorial, I will show you in a few, very easy steps how to write the code that you will need in order to render your blender files on the cloud. Once the code is written, it is a simple process of just uploading your blend file to Google Drive and running the script. In this updated video I will show how to render both animations and still frames using OPTIX and Cycles Thanks to @fodevaux for the useful suggestions! Link to Part 1: https://youtu.be/lEW7efy_aiY Here is the link to the code: https://github.com/microSingularity/GoogleColabBlender_2.git 00:00 Introduction 01:03 Important Points 01:37 Setting up your blender file for animations 05:12 Upload to Google Drive 05:30 Writing Code in Google Colab 10:00 Configure the GPU 10:40 Run the Code 14:46 Finished Animation 15:39 Packaging Textures in Blender File 18:24 Render a single image 21:52 Important Points about Google Colab 22:30 Close Google Colab Session