Looking for Artlantis alternatives

[Prisoner]

This year there is no way around for me buying a render software, so I'm still looking for the right one. Of the software I could find so far only Artlantis does what I need, i.e. non photorealistic rendering combined with an easy workflow (sketchup -> render software).

Does anyone of you know of another renderer that could do the job? 500-600€ just for the Artlantis Renderer (~900€ for Artlantis Studio) is quite some money for me at the moment, so I really want to buy the right piece of software.

Some features that are important to me:

• Edge strokes (something like sketchy edges in sketchup. Very important for me)
• Exposure (resulting in those glare effects)
• Clouds and/or good and easy integration of background pictures
• Fog (good for "washing out" some details)
• Camera focus (giving those blurry effects away from the focus point)
• Multi-texturing
• Oh, and of course hassle free integration of sketchup models

I hope you can help me with my decision.
Thanks in advance

A very early test render with Artlantis, that shows quite good the direction I want to go:

[remus]

Have you tried irender? it covers most of what youve got on your list, and the rest could be done fairly easily in photoshop/gimp.

(www.renderplus.com)

[Prisoner]

@remus said:

Have you tried irender?

thanks remus. I really forgot about irender, will give it a try again. I've been trying it once, but didnt need the features I need now.