Gave it another try... 1440p. Fixed the pose and a bit of the boob issue. I put the lumens to be like freaking 50k instead on 12 spotlights and 75k on 1 distant but what the heck?
Any tips on lighting or how to reduce render time without losing quality. Right now Im rendering with Nvidia Iray
50k is pretty normal. Actually, for a lot of my renders when I use a spotlight I'm at like 500k. There's some many tricks to speeding up renders. Here's just a few:
1. If you're not seeing the ceiling or walls, hide them and use the dome to light. It'll be a lot faster. Interior scenes take a long time to render.
2. The more light the better for iRay speeds, but mess around with tone mapping and turn down the iso to limit the light.
3. Look into a product called ghost lights to help with fill.
4. I'd keep it to a few lights max. Also, for the spot lights you can set them from point to rectangle and increase height and width to like 75 x 75 to give yourself more of a fill type light.
5. In render settings, set the max length path to 6-9 or so. -1 is the default and that's infinity so all the light bouncing around in your interiors is making times long.
6. Most important, head over to the Daz3d forums and search for iray speed threads and get more info on all these types and others.
