Rendering-as-a-Service: Taxonomy and Comparison

The movies like the “Avathar” are a good example of the stunning visual effects that the animation could bring into a movie.The 3D wireframe models are converted to 3D photorealistic images using a process called the rendering. This rendering process is offered as a service in the cloud, where the animation files to be rendered are split into frames and rendered in the cloud resources and are popularly known as Rendering-as-a-Service (RaaS). As this is gaining high popularity among the animators community, this work intends to enable the animators to: (a) Gain basic knowledge about Rendering-as-a-Service (RaaS). (b) Understand the variety in the RaaS service models through the taxonomy (c) Explore, compare and classify the RaaS services quickly using the tree-structured taxonomy of services. In this paper, the various characteristics of the RaaS services are organized in the form of a tree to enable quick classification and comparison of the RaaS services. To enhance the understandability, three popular RaaS services have been classified and verified according to the proposed tree-structured taxonomy.