It is VERY important that you read carefully this section before submitting a scene. It will help you to avoid common mistakes.

• Please verify before sending the scene that you have saved it with all the correct parameters. It is your responsibility to provide the scene with every parameter correctly set. The scene will be rendered exactly as you send it.

• Before sending your scene to the farm, reload it on your computer and begin a render at full resolution for a few minutes, just to check that everything is all right and that your scene does not cause a crash or other potential problem. Make sure that the IGI file produced by your scene is ⇐ 5 GB (the limit accepted by the RANCH).

• Do not use accentuated / non-alphanumeric characters, spaces, apostrophes and dots in the filenames of your project (scene, textures, objects, etc.). To avoid any possible parsing problems on the RANCH Runner, please use only letters and numbers. You can also use the “_” sign (underscore) to replace spaces.

Dedicated article: Scene preparation for a still image project

Dedicated article: Scene preparation for an animation project - Frame mode