Historically the ability to create a photorealistic render to the level where a viewer is left wondering whether it’s a photograph or a computer generated image has been left to the experts. These were the people that could justify the huge expense of acquiring enough hardware capacity to bring the render time down to less than a day, and were able to understand the nuances of irradiance, sub-surface scattering anti-aliasing and the like…
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