Render Network Logs 82.56 Million Frames; Sunspark Screens at More Than 50 Festivals

Render Network’s frame count reached 82,560,402 as of September 2026, while the short film Sunspark has screened at more than 50 festivals and won an award, showing the platform’s use in creative work.

Render Network lets artists use graphics processing units from a distributed pool for rendering. Directed by Danny Bourque, Sunspark was rendered entirely on the network and used more than 27,000 frames processed on the platform. It won Best Animation at the Twelve Lions Film Festival.

The network produced 1,328,005 frames in August, up 23% from 1,081,561 in July. It also produced immersive artworks at 18K resolution for the SUBMERGE exhibition at ARTECHOUSE in Washington, D.C.

Around the same period, Salad integrated payments using the Render (RENDER) token, while OTOY released updates to its OctaneRender software.