This just came in, a nice sports car created by Mariusz of www.mac300.pl .
Have you rendered anything interesting? Let us know in the comments and we might feature it.
Extended “about us” story
This story was originally published in the Blender Art Magazine issue #41. You can read it in the magazine, and we are reproducing it here for your convenience.
In this article, I am going to write about the story of RenderStreet, the next generation render farm dedicated to rendering Blender projects. I will touch on the topics of how we came up with the idea, what was like building it and how it turned out in the current stage. Continue reading
Blender 2.67b is up
Just a quick note to let you know that we have updated the blender 2.67 version we have on the site to the latest released by the Foundation. So the current version is now 2.67b. This ads a number of fixes over the 2.67a version and should increase the stability of the renders done with it.
Rendering anything interesting with 2.67? Let me know in the comments.
Blender 2.67 support added
It’s here. The long awaited Blender 2.67, with it’s support for SSS and FreeStyle has been released a couple days ago by the Blender Foundation. As usual, we added support for it just a day after it has been released, so you can enjoy this stable release of Blender.
We have also moved all projects that were using the latest SVN version of blender to use the stable 2.67 instead and removed the support for that SVN version.
Upload projects without packing
When we built the first version of RenderStreet, we started with the idea that we can take advantage of Blender’s pack external data feature and make sure the files are uploaded properly, with all the data needed to render them.
As they say, no plan survives the contact with the customer, so a while after we launched we ran into issues with Blender features not supported by the pack operation. Some of them, like the external libraries, were fixed by the dev team. Others, like the font embedding, had workarounds. But it became obvious that sooner or later we will run into something that can’t be supported at all.
Blender Network interview
There’s an interview with me on the BlenderNetwork site. You can check it out on their site:
http://www.blendernetwork.org/blog/interview-render-street
FreeStyle rendering added
FreeStyle has been available for Blender for some time, but it required a separate build of Blender. That made it difficult to support it on our farm. With the inclusion in the main development trunk with 2.67, FreeStyle will make it into the official release of Blender, so we can support it at RenderStreet as well. Hello cartoon face 
BlenderRenders Aquisition
I am proud to announce that we have recently acquired the blenderrenders.com website. This marks a new step in our expansion, and brings on board the oldest Blender dedicated render farm. Since RenderStreet already offers all the features included on BlenderRenders, we decided to invite all the users from the acquired site to join our farm, and give them an extended signup bonus, to facilitate the transition.
Full press release after the break
LuxRender standalone finally supported
We added support for rendering your Blender projects with LuxRender on RenderStreet some time ago. That was all fine and we were able to serve our customers who used both Blender and Luxrender. Though the problem remained that not all people using LuxRender build their projects with Blender. We’be been working for some time on this and the fruits of that work can be seen as of this week.
OSL support added
OSL has been supported in Blender for some time, and we have been working on adding it to RenderStreet as well. It should have been supported some time ago, but we ran into issues building the support for the OSL compiler on our platform. So , because of that, it has been delayed for a while.
