I've seen crap renders coming out of Iray and crap renders out of Reality, Octane, Cycles and whatever. People post it up and commenters say "that's awesome" when clearly it isn't. If you want photorealism you have to work for it, especially if you use skins, fabrics, lighting etc that wasn't created for that specific render engine. You have to have eyes too, or you won't be able to see the flaws. Skin is very important but so are clothing and other scene elements (unless you specialize in nude renders of figures floating in a void). If one element of the scene comes off as fake, you're dead . . . and falling into the uncanny valley. The glass, leather, metal, etc in the renders trickling out are impressive.

Skin is always the most difficult, the most easily identified when it's flawed. SM would have done well to have provided good skin materials at launch but there should be no doubt at this point that Superfly can created realistic skin with the right setup.

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