My last image (not posted yet) just has one character, a handful of objects... very simple scene. However, it has a dozen of lights, most of them quadratic with soft shadows, a volumetric atmosphere and two large volumetric spotlights. Time to render in Broadcast mode, in 3500x2600 pixels - 57 hours. Same scene in screen resolution - 6 hours. On the bright side, my biggest scene (The raft of the medusa) had 17 Michael characters imported into Vue with multiple props. It required some juggling with layers but it was workable. The trick is to group parts of the scene in layers and just make them invisible if you don't work on them anymore - it makes Vue a lot faster for very complex scenes.

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