I own the Indigo Render plugin, which is great for still images. However, I haven't used it for animation because it really ties up my machine to make and scene resources eat up hard drive spaces as it stands right now. It occurs to me that adding a small change to the plugin might allow for a more efficient workflow.

You can do this by installing Indigo RT and Iclone 6 pro on a second machine strictly for rendering. This solves the problem of allowing me to continue working while that other machine handles the render, but manually passing scene files back in forth is tedious and if you're working on more than one scene, you have to wait for it to finish processing, then go back and start the next job.

It occurs to me that you could automate that process by adding a pass thru mode to the Indigo Plugin, in which when you are ready to render, you could click a button and send the scene file to your render box and set it to begin the render and report back to your workstation when it's complete. In addition give the plugin the ability to queue renders and start the next one automatically. This means you can keep working on your machine while another machine does all the render jobs. When the render job is done, you can click on the link to view the finished render. My suggestion does not require network rendering from RT, but merely creates an Iclone created Queue that tells Indigo when to render and in what order.