MistyLaraCarrara posted at 9:22PM Wed, 23 December 2020 - #4408318

the only render engine results that blows me away is vray. demo reel is gorgeous.

the iray results i've seen are kinda mono looking. all look the same.

That has to do with the industry that each render engine is being used for. What i mean by that is Vray has been around for the last 20 years more or less. It's been adopted by huge vfx studios and really put to the test in movie and animation productions over and over again. So the people who were making sizzle reels and shorts with vray are mostly people in the vfx industry and working for visual effects companies.

Iray is fairly new to the industry and was adopted first by architectural, jewelry and product visualization companies. Mostly because of how accurate it can recreate real world lighting conditions and materials with almost no thought about the settings compared to vray. Vray started out as an architecture render engine for 3dsmax originally too, but other render engines have started to take over those industries now because of how easy they are to use. You will notice that the majority of professional renders in the Nvidia iray reels for iray are product shots, interiors and jewelry stuff while vray is now mostly vfx shots and artistic renders.