You should realize, however, that LuxRender can pause a render. You can stop it, and then pick up where you left off months later.

Rendering never "finishes". You run it until it seems good enough. The longer you run it, the more clean it gets.

With good technique and a fast machine, it's possible to render decent stuff in a couple hours.

I sleep, on average, about 2920 hours a year. During sleep, I also render, so it's actually reasonable to do my prep work in Poser, a few test renders, and then my final 80 hour masterpiece in LuxRender. Just an idea - I don't actually render anything but demonstrations, so I never really do this.

At that rate, I'd have 36 perfectly photorealistic images every year. That's way more than I've put in my gallery.

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