Good to hear VSS will work in Pro 2010, thanks. Haven't had a second to read up on it but I'll get to it soon.

I'm not too concerned with speed as much as quality, just figured it's a smaller area to render and we'll still be able to see how the lighting is working out.

Here's a render of the skateboarder shorts right leg only. As everyone said, no more transparancy in the shorts, but even in this render the skin tones in the render area are still greyish.