Data Center 336

Straight off the render queue

Every image below came out of Cycles on a real GPU — no stock photography, no AI image generation. The full public gallery lives in the studio's Outputs view.

From server files to a finished frame

The scene source lives on the render host. You edit a shot — camera, movement, lighting, look, output — as a saved revision, preview it interactively, then submit it to the render queue. A submitted job carries an immutable snapshot, so later edits never change what's already rendering. The workflow, in detail →

Direct it like a set, not a screenshot

The hall is lit and framed with photographic controls, and the same numbers drive the final render — there is no cosmetic slider whose value gets thrown away.

The host GPU is part of the farm

The host GPU and connected workers contribute to the same production workflow. Persistent queues show progress and completed outputs; the host can use two render slots when its memory budget permits. Install the Farm app and connect through the private invite. Tailscale provides the connection; workers return finished frames automatically, without a manually mounted shared folder. Octane uses its licensed host and keeps its output separate from Cycles.

CGI is a real, sellable stock category

Each claim links to a source you can check yourself. Where something couldn't be verified, it says so instead of guessing — this project's own no-fabrication rule.

Beyond the hall: the room library

Data Center 336 is the scene in active development. The library holds every other room this pipeline has already built — hospitals, vaults, villas, offices, command centers — each with its own showcase page and real renders. All of it stays available in the studio.

Three new engineering-grade rooms

Built to the same standard as Data Center 336 and already loadable in the studio. Their generators, camera libraries and technical illustration atlases are complete; their first frames render at the queue's next idle window, and their pages say so plainly rather than showing a borrowed image.

Sections and dimensions, drawn from the same numbers as the geometry

Every room ships a drawing set alongside its renders: plan, section, elevation, rack detail, power and cooling schematics — 41 sheets across the three new builds. They are generated from the scene's own CONFIG, not traced from a render, so a dimension on a sheet and the same dimension in the 3D scene cannot drift apart. Original SVG, so they scale to any print size and stay editable in Illustrator.

The clean render is the master. Everything else is a derivative.

Blender writes the clean plate — 8K stills, 4K video, or multilayer EXR with passes. After Effects then builds the explanatory version as a separate file: flow arrows, numbered callouts, power and cooling paths, each one a declarative preset rather than hand-built script. The plate is imported as a layer and never modified, so the sellable frame and the explainer frame come out of the same render instead of competing for it. The studio's Adobe tab shows which overlays are staged, which plates they are waiting on, and the exact two commands that build and render them.

What it costs to direct here

Browsing and the gallery are open to everyone. Composing and rendering your own shots runs on the studio's real hardware. Prices below are the actual offer (owner-approved 2026-09-20); the checkout behind them isn't wired yet — signing in gets you the account, not a charge.