[META/Image] Hand of Bobb's Stuff

[Mark Skarr]

HRogge wrote:

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I think I will stay with Blender for the moment, its only a small Hobby, so I don't want to invest lots of money in software.
8-16 hours per rendering makes doing animations nearly impossible.

For Blender, Lux is free.  For those of us using Daz, the bridge is $80.  And, if you have a rendering farm, it makes it take far less time.  Which, I'm sorry to say, is really the only way to do animation anymore.  I'm strongly considering buying a group of quad-core (intel) computers and networking them so I can use them as a rendering farm.  Lux and AMD don't get along, and they're not sure why (neither do I, but that's because AMD's screwed me a number of times in the past).
ETA: Just as an example, this pic I posted in the Dr. Who plot bunny thread has only been rendering for 36 minutes.  It was at ~61 samples per pixel.  I usually look for 1.5k~3k samples per pixel as a "finished" picture.