🎨 3D Rendering & VFX · State Machine
Render Job Lifecycle
The states of a render job on a render farm: submitted, queued, rendering frame by frame, failures and retries, and completion.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Jobs wait in a priority queue for free render nodes
- Failed frames are retried automatically a few times
- Artists can suspend or requeue jobs
Prompt used
State machine for a render job: Submitted, Queued by priority, Rendering (frames distributed to nodes), Suspended by the artist and Resumed, Frames Failed triggering automatic retry up to 3 times, then Failed if still failing. When all frames finish it goes to Completed, then Delivered after output checks (missing or black frames).
Mermaid code
stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Submitted Submitted --> Queued: By priority Queued --> Rendering: Nodes available Rendering --> Suspended: Artist pauses Suspended --> Queued: Resume Rendering --> FramesFailed: Frame errors FramesFailed --> Rendering: Auto-retry (max 3) FramesFailed --> Failed: Still failing Failed --> Queued: Artist requeues Rendering --> Completed: All frames done Completed --> OutputCheck OutputCheck --> Delivered: No missing or black frames OutputCheck --> Queued: Re-render bad frames Delivered --> [*]
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