pumeco wrote

I have my samples set as low as 20 when I'm messing around in Cycles, grainy, but it stops my fans from spinning-up too much and keeps the cards cool :-D

BTW, what is it, Cycles or Octane?

this was done in Octane. it's a GPU optimized renderer (can't even use CPU) but not really limited in what it can do :)

EldritchCellar wrote

Hmmm, looks like photorealistic rendering has become childs play if you can get results like that in 10 seconds. Now I understand BB's comment about better software in relation to challenge. Yawn.

well, in this case it took me some minutes to set up the shader. rendering was quick then, though :D

Usually, in my images I spend a good deal of time in optimizing the materials. It is amazing what you can get out of simple textures once you know what you're doing.

And my usual render times ain't 10 seconds either :D 

more from 10min to 1.5 hours