Rendering on one workstation
No render farm, no cloud bill. The overnight setup that rendered 184,320 frames last year.
Everything on this site was rendered on one machine under my desk in Oslo. It’s quiet, it’s paid for, and it renders while I sleep.
The overnight queue
A plain shell script runs a list of Blender jobs in order and writes a log I read with my coffee. Denoising lets me render at 64 to 128 samples; the grain I add in comp hides the rest.
When I do rent a farm
Only for long films with volumetrics. I price it into the quote up front, so it never becomes a surprise.
Written by Ilka Vordahl
Motion & 3D designer, Oslo. Booking November 2026.
