This is very nice!

The modeling, the lighting, the materials, the camera motion, the play with dof, the extra touches of chromatic abberation, the music, the rhytm of shots edited to the music, those final screens (where many artists would lack the extra graphical touch because they're used to ...

Came out quite nicely.

And indeed one could think the information is in there if you take the pictures... but obviously you're just capturing a color map with reflections/lights and shadows baked in but your photos don't have any actual material properties in the metadata nor do they contain any ...

Can I get some help setting this up? I followed the directions but when I try to render I get a message saying "not connected. No renderserver at address …"

It seems counterintuitive to stop the server before running Blender as the directions say.

I just had to make sure the server was running ...

Oh ok, should've tested past that stage indeed. It is however limited to 1 GPU, I read in several outside posts that it would potentially support 2 GPU's under this free tier?
Can't nag about it because it's a free tier anyway, I just want to know if it's going to expand to 2 GPU's or if this will ...

Same problem here, it's not detecting my CUDA cards (2x GTX 1080TI and 1x 970TI)

Blender Octane Edition
https://i.ibb.co/tbzzvcz/2019-07-30-14-21-13-Window.png

Blender Regular 2.8 RC3
https://i.ibb.co/rxmcZtW/2019-07-30-14-21-41-Window.pngJ

Works fine in the octane 2.79 with Octane Demo (and ...

I've purchased Octane recently and I'm simply amazed by its speed and performance.

Been testing it for two weeks on some small scenes to see where it takes me.
Here's a scene I did to get familiar with the options of the physical daylight system and to test the support for replicators in modo ...

Very nice, you have a great eye for details.

True

Octane will pick the lowest card and limit the VRAM to that card so be careful cramming your system with cards of different specs.