Neon Chair

olishea

thats sweet man.

but please, you take your cat to a cat wash?!!

Gaieus

Cool render.

Agree about the inverted bump - would probably look better.
And actually ~2 hs is not even bad concerning how many emitting facets you have in there (this is supposed to boost rendering time so whenever is possible, use "fake" emitters instead - of course here it would "kill" the very point).

Ecuadorian

Well, I did render a 22-minute "biased" version with a low-poly invisible emitter and a high-poly fake emitter, but the reflection in the stone wasn't looking too cool and I was too lazy to hack the preset file to up the fuzzy reflection setting, so I deleted the invisible emitter and just rendered in a unbiased preset. According to Frederik, in unbiased mode it doesn't matter how many faces your emitters have. However, I'm pretty sure the render looked clean way before the two-hour mark. I'll do a test of how it looks after 30 minutes.

And this is my cat. She's white and looks grey when dirty, that's why she needs a regular bath. But as she's kind of wild, I leave that task to the professionals.

olishea

awesome your cat has one blue eye and one brown eye. feral

Ecuadorian

Ok, here's a 30-minute test, with the correct bump:

Bear in mind that I have an ancient Core 2 Duo E6300 Allendale. According to Tomshardware.com's charts, the Core i7 920 should be 3.5x faster for 3D rendering, so you should be able to achieve the same result in around 9 minutes:
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/3D-Studio-Max-9,836.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/desktop-cpu-charts-q3-2008/Cinema-4D-Release-10,835.html

Unfortunately I had already deleted the versions of this file with the low-poly invisible emitter and the biased tests. I guess I'll have to do my tests with another model.

MALAISE

Bright !

MALAISE

xrok1

wheres the cord?

looks good.

dylan

That's really cool Miguel and it was a good idea of Eric's for that scene

The light looks really nice.

fymoro

pretty cool render, your cat is nice too....

boofredlay

Nice work, I love it.

michaliszissiou

Great render here. ok nice cat too, really.