I just got a marketing email from Daz - I'm not supposed to get those since I opted out of all marketing emails. Since they violated my trust, I will now make a little fun of them.

It has a quote "The improved render engine is faster with even greater precision! - SophiD". Who is SophiD I wonder - the DS version of Bagginsbill?

Above it is a render of a street scene. There is a black sports car with yellow stripes. It looks like it is made of velvet, not paint. Obviously it wasn't done with accurate Fresnel reflection coefficients. There is a fire hydrant that looks like plastic. There are figures that look like plastic covered in plastic clothing.

Is that really the best demo render they could put on the marketing literature? I'm sure that DS 3 can render better than that.

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