It’s important to remember that the render farm is not capable of seeing anything on the computers that we are operating, nor your home computer. For this reason, for the render to be possible, we have to make sure everything that is contained in our render exists on the farm’s network, and we do this by saving our work onto Elements.
To begin, launch and log into Elements with your student details. Select on the folder which applies to your course for example; MIDA Production BA Animation, then select Users, the year that you are in and then create a folder for yourself if you have not yet already. This folder should contain all future project files with which you intend to use the render farm for.
Unlike our other storage drives, when you save your work to Elements you are able to access it from any of our MIDA computers and even from home if you are using remote access with VMWare Horizon Client.
Now that you have located the correct folder necessary to upload your project, you can drag or copy the entire project directory into this folder. It’s a good idea to open this file from its new home and ensure that nothing is missing. See the link on the main page ‘Is my file ready to render?‘