aereed82

In my experience renderings come down to a few major things. Having the right backdrop so that it is not throwing colors into your rendering you don't want. Having really good materials. Materials seem to be one of the biggest things that make my renderings look really good or really bad. I run the ACES rendering with pretty much out of the box settings. I use only the backdrop for lighting. This ranges anywhere from 18k to 20k outside and 2k to 7k inside. Once I am ready to do my rendering I bump up the sharpening, set the sample range from 800 to 2500 depending on the shot, and make sure ambient occlusion is 100%. From there it is just messing with it until you get the scene to look right. Rene Rabbitt has a really good VIP YouTube channel that I have picked up a ton of tricks with for rendering. I would highly suggest giving it a try. This is one I am playing with right now. When Chief launched X16 it really gave us the ability to do some really cool renders.