Sometimes the seams for the skin texture is visible and turning off texture filtering usually eliminates that problem, it wont help as far as render times go.

I just looked to see what Madde hair looked like. Thats a lot of hair. :-)

Your render settings are pretty mild So I would try rendering with raytracing disabled for the hair. Maybe it wont look too bad. One trick to do and get shadows underneath the hair is to setup a light on the hair with shadow maps instead of raytraced shadows. Have your other lights use raytraced shadows. That way you have quality shadows on the scene and shadows on the hair without having it visible in raytracing.

Handle every stressful situation like a dog.

If you can't eat it or play with it,

just pee on it and walk away. :-)

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I wouldnt have to manage my anger

if people would manage their stupidity......