For the first time, we have bad news to announce.
On January 12th, SheepIt's main server lost two of its four hard drives. As a result, all data stored on the server was lost.
Since then all four drives have been replaced, but the data could not be recovered. Backups were in place, but in an unfortunate turn of events, were corrupted as well.
The latest working backup is from August 29th, 2018. This is the one that is now live.
We lost all of the forum, as none of its backups were viable.
If you have registered between August 29th, 2018 and January 12th, 2019, your account is lost.
All the activity between August and now is gone, this means all the points generated since August are gone as well.
To fix this issue, we had three possible solutions:
1) Give back however much points users claim to have had.
2) Do nothing.
3) Increase rendering rewards to compensate for the loss.
Even though we are proud of the SheepIt community, we could not choose 1), as this surely would have been abused.
Instead, we opted to triple rendering rewards until the end of February.
Blender 2.81 available!November, 23rd 2019
Blender Conf rewards!October, 23rd 2019
You can support us on PatreonAugust, 22nd 2019
Blender 2.80 available!July, 30th 2019
100 million rendered frames!June, 20th 2019
Blender 2.80 beta available!December, 26th 2018
80 million rendered frames!October, 27th 2018
Filmic blender support!August, 17th 2018
Call for testing AMD gpuAugust, 8th 2018
70 million rendered frames!July, 18th 2018
60 million rendered frames!March, 29th 2018
50 million rendered frames!December, 3rd 2017
Blender Conf rewards!October, 24th 2017
Blender 2.79 available!September, 12th 2017
40 million rendered frames!August, 8th 2017
30 million rendered frames!April, 26th 2017
Filmic blender support!February, 23rd 2017
20 million rendered frames!December, 12th 2016
Blender 2.78 available!September, 29th 2016
New website!September, 5th 2016
Blender 2.77a available!March, 23rd 2016
10 millions rendered frames!March, 8th 2016
100 years of rendering!January, 7th 2016
Blender 2.76 available!October, 13th 2015
5 millions rendered frames!July, 5th 2015
Blender 2.75 available!July, 2nd 2015
4 millions rendered frames!May, 14th 2015
Blender 2.74 available!April, 1st 2015
3 millions rendered frames!March, 3rd 2015
Blender 2.73a available!January, 10th 2015
Client source code goes free!November, 20th 2014
2 millions rendered frames!October, 30th 2014
Blender 2.72b available!October, 6th 2014
Blender 2.71 available!June, 26th 2014
1 million rendered frames!May, 11th 2014
Blender 2.70a available!March, 21st 2014
500,000 rendered frames!February, 6th 2014
200,000 rendered frames!November, 12th 2013
Blender 2.69 available!October, 31st 2013
Support of single frameSeptember, 17th 2013
Blender 2.68a available!July, 24th 2013
GPU supportedMay, 27th 2013
Cumulated render time record broken!May, 9th 2013
Blender 2.67 available!May, 7th 2013
Blender 2.66a available!May, 6th 2013
Blender 2.65 available!December, 10th 2012