Tomsde opened this issue on May 15, 2009 · 327 posts
pjz99 posted Fri, 12 June 2009 at 5:24 AM
Quote - well thats your problem if you use raytraced shadows with hair. PIXAR,sony,WETA and ILM are not using raytraced shadows for hair.
That doesn't really matter unless you're animating. When you need to render 24 / 30 frames per second x 60 seconds x 90 minutes, and you only have a year to get it all rendered, you cut whatever corners you can - avoiding raytracing wherever possible is a major corner that gets cut. For still frames, especially for "professional caliber" (whatever that really means) render time doesn't matter nearly as much if quality is of high importance.