Sous Chef

Sous Chef is a command-line utility for managing renders on Blender film projects.

It takes care of queuing scenes for rendering, allowing large batches to be paused and resumed, wrangles outputs (especially File Nodes!) and generally makes offline rendering simpler for a solo artist or a small team.

While traditional render farm managers are designed to network and distribute jobs to many nodes, Sous Chef is designed for single users managing renders on a local device or a network share.

Basically, it's more of a render allotment than a render farm.

Sous Chef can queue and execute several separate jobs, cache locked copies of their dependencies and easily stop and resume ongoing jobs.

Sous Chef is open-source and licensed under the GPL v3.0.  You can get a copy of the source over on GitHub.  You're encouraged to visit the manual over there to understand Sous Chef's full capabilities and whether it's the right tool for you. You can also cross-reference the zip files here on itch with the checksums published in the GitHub releases.