Drop & Render  ×  The Great Summit

A Cinema 4D render farm, made by professionals.

The Great Summit and Drop & Render are the same company. We’ve built Cinema 4D plugins and render-farm tools for over a decade, and as an official Maxon render-farm partner we lead the Cinema 4D render workflow with tools that feel native to every artist. Our team is made of 3D enthusiasts, which is why we’re still shipping plugins for the community today.

Official Maxon partner 10+ years building for C4D Free starting credits No card to begin GDPR-compliant EU datacenter

It lives inside Cinema 4D.

A native plugin, not a web uploader. Blender and Houdini are covered too.

Redshift, Octane, Arnold, V-Ray and Take rendering, submitted straight from your scene with zero asset remapping.

Cycles and EEVEE with automatic asset collection. Install the add-on, hit submit, done.

USD / Solaris pipelines, PDG/TOP networks and simulation caching via a native HDA.

How it works

Never used a render farm? It’s three steps.

Don’t worry. You don’t upload anything by hand or learn a new app. Install our plugin and it works right inside Cinema 4D. All you do is check your scene and hit submit.

01

Install the plugin

It installs right inside Cinema 4D and becomes the bridge between your workstation and our farm. Blender and Houdini have native add-ons too.

02

Check your scene

Hit Check Scene and we run 300+ automatic checks for missing assets, broken paths and bad render settings, before a single credit is spent.

03

Hit submit

Your project renders across hundreds of GPUs and CPUs at once. Carry on working in C4D while the farm does the heavy lifting.

Unmatched power

A datacenter behind every frame.

Every render taps a wall of the latest Nvidia RTX hardware in our own Dutch, ISO 27001-certified datacenter. Big jobs fan out across many machines at once, so a sequence that took all night locally comes back while you grab a coffee.

Latest Nvidia RTX Own Dutch datacenter ISO 27001 certified
The details

Everything handled for you.

300+ automatic checks

Before a single credit is spent, we scan your scene for missing assets, broken paths and render settings that would have failed.

Take rendering

Render every Cinema 4D Take in one submit: variations, camera angles and client options all come back at once.

Tile rendering for big stills

A single high-res frame is split across many machines automatically, so even one heavy image finishes in record time.

Zero asset remapping

No packing files, no fixing paths. The plugin scans your scene and collects every asset for you.

Frames land back on their own

Each finished frame downloads straight to the output path you set inside C4D, while you keep working.

Every engine & major plugin

Redshift, Octane, Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and more, plus plugins like X-Particles. If it renders locally, it renders here.

Credits never expire

Top up in bulk for bonus credits. They stay in your account until you use them. No time limits.

24/7 expert support

Reach real rendering specialists any time over live chat. Frames that fail on our end are auto-refunded.

Every engine and major plugin you already run
Redshift Octane Arnold V-Ray Corona Cycles EEVEE Karma X-Particles
Priority

Pick your pace.

Higher priority assigns render nodes to your job faster, and you only pay the difference if it genuinely finishes sooner.

Sapphire priority
Best value

Sapphire

Not in a rush? Sapphire takes the cheapest route to done and saves you the most.

Solo artists
Emerald priority
Balanced

Emerald

The everyday choice. A healthy stream of nodes finishes your job at a good pace without overspending.

Studios
Diamond priority
Fastest

Diamond

Maximum priority. New render nodes are thrown at your job as fast as we can assign them.

Deadlines
Security

Your files are safe with us.

Uploads are encrypted over TLS, scanned by our own intrusion-detection system and stored with AES-256. Everything is irrecoverably deleted after seven days, with no exceptions.

AES-256 encryption GDPR compliant 7-day max retention ISO 27001 datacenter

Start rendering in five minutes.

Create an account, install the Cinema 4D plugin, and submit your first job on free starting credits, no card required.

Questions, answered.

Who is behind Drop & Render? +
The same team as The Great Summit. We are one company. We have built Cinema 4D plugins and render-farm tools for over a decade and are an official Maxon render-farm partner. The farm is run by 3D artists, for 3D artists.
Which apps does it support? +
Cinema 4D first and foremost, through a native plugin that submits straight from your scene, with no web uploads and no manual packing. Blender and Houdini have native add-ons too.
Which render engines work? +
All the major ones: Redshift, Octane, Arnold, V-Ray, Corona, Cycles, EEVEE, Karma and more, plus plugins like X-Particles. We also handle Take rendering and tile rendering for big still frames. If it renders locally, it renders on the farm.
Do I need a credit card to try it? +
No. New accounts get free starting credits, so you can render your first job before adding any payment method. There is no monthly commitment and no minimum spend.
How does pricing work? +
You only pay for the server time you actually use, billed per benchmark point. Buy credits in bulk for bonus credits, they never expire, and any frame that fails on our end is automatically refunded.
Is my data secure? +
Uploads are encrypted over HTTPS/TLS, every file is scanned by our intrusion-detection system, and data is stored with AES-256 in our ISO 27001-certified Dutch datacenter. All project files and renders are irrecoverably deleted after seven days.
Can my whole studio share one account? +
Yes. Invite collaborators, assign roles and share a single credit pool across the team, with admins able to monitor every job from one overview.