I put my car shot on to render between the 17th and the 21st this month (I’m rendering my tire smoke separately). It is now the 29th… so roughly 8 days worth of render on the farm for this smoke… some of the frames have taken 3 days while others have taken half an hour, I’m sure I’ve done something wrong.

Our IT guy was supposed to install an additional four machines into the farm last week, I’ll give him an email and ask what’s going on…

EDIT: Well now, it turns out the machines that were taking four days were actually OFF. They must have not been able to take the strain. I got into the server room and half the machine’s lights were just dead, switched them all on again and we’re back up to speed. What a waste of time! I still haven’t heard from our IT guy yet.