Quote - How do you all render so fast?  It takes me days to decide what I want to do and then to do it.  Getting the face the way I want it and then a pose can take me a couple of days.  I usually have a few hours at a time to work on it.  You all seem to crank out renders like magic!

Xandi.. you're not the only one.  Model and scene creation is a breeze for me.. only takes me a few hours to get everything set to render.. it's my renders that take forever. A 1500x800 render with just one or two lights and a decent scene will creep along for me at like 17k samples/sec.  Every once in a while the gods will smile on my work and they'll go like 70k but that's like 1 out of 10 renders.  I just can't seem to figure it out.. I get everything set right.. hide stuff that's not in frame, nothing glossy, hide body parts that are under clothes, keep my lighting simple.  Still.. my latest render(still baking) has gone overnight and doesn't even have 200 passes yet.