Need to fix a few things, but feeling good about it... thanks Howie Day for all the render help! I'd be waiting another week on renders if it wasnt for him!
Went back to the drawing board with lighting and massively cleaned up my scene. I'm going more now for the essence, trying not to be so bound to the strange lighting in the movie. I have a new CPU rendering and denoising elements workflow and recomping in the worst of the noisy elements with denoised elements (reflection and GI) while keeping, hopefully, the color texture detail intact. Have been pretty happy with tests and now getting 2-3 minutes a frame...
Alrighty...just a thing or two more, but I'm feeling pretty good about this (and ready to move on to another shot when I have time. There are things you can always tweak
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So much goodness!
And a cloud planet test with many thanks to all the discussion on the discord channel about clouds.
Great Stuff!