Animation and film: your Blender sequences on several GPUs,
while you animate

A sequence split frame by frame

Each frame of an animation renders independently of the others. TURNA sends your scene from the Blender add-on, then splits the frames of the chosen range across the machines of the tier: 1, 2, 4 or 8 render at the same time. The wait is divided accordingly, the total compute stays the same, and you do not have to cut the sequence up yourself.

If a machine stops along the way, the frames it had not finished go to another machine, never to the one that has just failed. If the render still fails, you are refunded.

What you get at the end of the render

The render follows the output format set in your file: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, OpenEXR, or multilayer OpenEXR if you keep the passes for compositing. A video output set to FFmpeg is rendered frame by frame as PNG, which splitting across several machines requires.

You download the archive of the frames, and an MP4 preview of the sequence is produced separately for a first review. The archive stays downloadable for at least 30 days.

Before sending a sequence

• Bake your simulations. Cloth, fluids and particles must be baked before sending: the add-on reminds you, and an unbaked simulation does not appear in the final image.
• Test a few consecutive frames. Flicker from per-frame denoising only shows in motion: render five or six consecutive frames and play them back before launching the whole shot.
• Animate the noise seed. The clock icon next to Seed, in Render Properties > Sampling > Advanced, changes the noise pattern on every frame. Without it, the residual noise stays frozen on screen while the camera moves.
• Check the range and the output. The guide how to render an animation in Blender covers the frame range, the folder and the format, through to assembling an MP4.

Worked example: a 30-second animation

720 frames at 2 minutes per frame, i.e. 30 seconds at 24 frames per second. This time per frame is that of an RTX 4090, the card TURNA falls back on. On your computer, with an RTX 3060, each frame takes about 8 minutes: count on 91 h 12 during which it can do nothing else. On TURNA, your computer stays free and, on Turbo, the shot is ready in 3 h 00.

The time on your card comes from the GPU scores of our render time calculator (in French), aligned with the Blender Open Data ranking (in French): 40 for an RTX 3060, 152 for an RTX 4090. An RTX 5090, served first, is faster than this table; the actual gap depends on the scene. Billed on the time actually used, with a 30-second minimum. For your own scene, the render time calculator starts from the time of one frame.

Frequently asked questions about animation rendering

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