Afanasy

What it does

Access modes

Watch has USER, VISOR, and GOD modes; VISOR and GOD are enabled by typing a five-character password stored as an MD5 sum.checked 14 Nov 2026

Command tasks

It can run any work that can be described with commands, including studio maintenance such as archives, movie encode and decode, and file copy or upload.checked 14 Nov 2026

Dependencies and hosts

Jobs support dependencies and priorities, one host can run several tasks, and one task can run on several hosts as a master with slaves.checked 14 Nov 2026

Downloads

Release 3.4.1 has a Windows ZIP and Linux packages for AlmaLinux, Debian, Rocky, and Ubuntu; macOS has no binary release and is built from source.checked 14 Nov 2026

Host monitoring

It monitors each machine’s CPU, GPU, RAM, disk, swap, I/O, and network, and can add custom Python resource meters.checked 14 Nov 2026

Interfaces

It includes a Qt Watch GUI, a Web GUI served by the Afanasy server, a CLI, Wake-On-LAN, and automatic or scheduled Nimby.checked 14 Nov 2026

JSON API

Every GUI, CLI, and Python script talks to the server only by sending JSON, and the Python API builds and sends job objects.checked 14 Nov 2026

Pools and licenses

Pools and tickets describe what machines can do and how much, including farm-wide software license counts and per-host limits such as RAM.checked 14 Nov 2026

Software integrations

Listed integrations are 3ds Max, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Clarisse iFX, Fusion, Houdini, Maya, Natron, Nuke, and Softimage.checked 14 Nov 2026

Statistics

The server can store logs and job and task statistics in PostgreSQL, and a PHP site is provided to browse that database.checked 14 Nov 2026

Sub-task dependence

The first finished frames of a simulation can start rendering before the entire simulation calculation is finished.checked 14 Nov 2026

Support

Support is community messengers, a Google mailbox, GitHub issues for code questions, and RULES online questions with no registration.checked 14 Nov 2026

Web GUI limit

The Web GUI is for machines where CGRU cannot be installed, and the docs say a browser can hang if it tries to show more than 10000 items.checked 14 Nov 2026

What it is

Afanasy is the render farm manager in the free, open-source CGRU computer-graphics tools pack, alongside the Rules project tracker.checked 14 Nov 2026

Who it is for

It is used by CG and VFX studios, and the project says the user list cannot be complete because it is open source and has no client base.checked 14 Nov 2026