3D Animation 24/6

Render Farm

Render Settings

make sure scene is set to 25fps

image format - exr

frame/animation ext - name_#.ext

frame padding 4

frame range = 1-final frame (frames that get rendered)

select camera

HD_1080

Copy the entire project folder to Y:RenderFarm. Test copied file to make sure the textures are still linked. Set project to the y drive folder. Clean up the frame numbers to whole numbers.

Hit reload to test that the textures are still linked, if not go and find one of the files then reload all textures to relink them all.

Open Deadline Monitor to access the render farm. Select Submit -> Maya. Name the job with name. Open machine list and add computers that are marked as free in the monitor. Direct Project Directory to your folder. Maya file = your project file then setup the output to the Y:RenderFarm folder. Frames per task = 4 and list frames 1-final frame number. 

Open After Effects and open the files making sure to select exr sequence and set project to 25fps. Run the animation to make sure lighting and textures look how u want them to. Any broken or missing frames can be rendered individually without the full scene. Render out from after effects into premiere to combine into the final animation. 

Final base textures. Im using photoshop to modify them further to get the scene that I want.