I'd like to show you an easier way to manage your Blendergrid projects. With our Blender add-on, you can create Blendergrid projects from inside Blender. The add-on has one main purpose: Making file transfers easier.

Without using a Blender add-on, rendering on Blendergrid looks something like this:

  1. Upload: Taking your .blend file and any other files it relies on, and upload it through your web browser
  2. Calculate the price: After the upload finishes and the settings look good you would start a price calculation
  3. Render: Now you can start rendering the project
  4. Download: After all frames have finished rendering and collected into a .zip file, you can download them.

The first and last step, Upload and Download, are about transferring files. First from your computer to Blendergrid, then the opposite.

Doing this through a browser works, but if you start doing bigger projects, the browser is not ideal.

That's why we created a Blender add-on.

This add-on can figure out which files, besides your main .blend file, we need to render. Then it can upload all these files and you don't need to worry about creating .zip files or anything.

It also makes downloading faster and easier. When your project is rendering, the add-on checks which frames have finished and downloads them automatically. Even if the render is still in progress.

This means that the moment the render has finished, you likely already have most frames downloaded. Then it's only a matter of downloading the last few frames and you're ready to move to editing or compositing.

Even when the render is still in progress, you can already start compositing because often times you only need to work on one frame at a time.

Here is a quick demo of using the add-on from installation to final render:

To get started using the add-on, you need to:

  1. Register a Blendergrid account (free)
  2. Download and install the add-on: blendergrid.zip
  3. Log in with your Blendergrid account in Blender
  4. Create an Image or Animation render project
  5. Optional: If you want to start rendering from inside Blender, you can use your render credit
  6. When the rendering finishes: Download the frames (if they haven't already automatically been downloaded by the add-on)

The add-on makes uploading easier when you're working with a lot of external files. And it makes downloading easier if you're rendering a large frame sequence and the frames are large in file size.

I hope that helps! Feel free to reach out if you need assistance with using the add-on.

For now, we try to keep the add-on as simple as possible and just make it work well. But if there are feature you would like to see which improve your workflow, feel free to reach out!

Download the add-on and render something amazing!