yeah, scene is 79480 triangles... a very small scene indeed

almost done with this... trying to make it look like a painting like how mr jack zhang did it here https://features.cgsociety.org/story_...rer=newsletter

but i have absolutely no idea how that's done....

https://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...61_3864509.jpg
a bit more to add and do... this took 1 minute and 35 seconds to render at 1280x1024
so i still think i'm not doing everything i can with rendering.... i just ticked GI and FG and nothing really changed other than a massive jump in the render time...