Tom (DreamlandModels) and I had a similar problem. Tom has a lot of "city" stuff and the cars look great in those situations. But whole city scenes are kind of heavy on resources when you want a 5-minute render time and you have to crank out 10 promo images. And - they do get a bit busy and distract you from the car.

So we came up with the "Car Patio". And - we started selling the Car Patio yesterday.

Combined with my free environment sphere, it makes for very fast and attractive car renders. Just interesting enough to put them in context, but not so interesting that the context is distracting.

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