As I've noted before, I don't have access to a render farm along the lines of what Pixar or Weta use. However, I do have a handful of computers that are capable of rendering at a reasonable speed. I've looked at some of the options available to me for managing rendering jobs, but they all either cost money or require enough configuration work that I haven't been terribly enthusiastic about taking them on. So-- I spent a good part of the last couple days working on a small application I'm calling "Render Garden," that will store information about the scenes I need to render (file name, frames, output name, etc.), and ultimately either generate or run the render commands, or split up the render jobs to be run on whatever number of computers I have available to do the job. It's probably going to be more manual labor than what an ideal system would entail, but overall I'm pleased with the app. When it's done I'll probably post it on the Transparent Media site.