My sincere apologies Mlody, I shouldn't have assumed things and put words/ thoughts into your mouth. I got a bit frustrated at everyone's complaints and vented a bit. I'm sorry about that.

Wow, so much commotion over a deadline postponement. o.O; I mean, I worked like crazy this past weekend to finish it in time and thus I'm a bit disappointed, but this gives me even more time to tweak and re-render. No need to get all upset. =) Also, a quick reply to this quote my mlody:

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Wow! I just got a chance to go through the entries, and there are so many amazing pictures! Nice job everyone! =D
Also, here's my second entry. Same scene, but different angle. I'm not sure on the rendertime because Octane crashed at some point along the way, stopping at only 907 samples. Oh well ...

Alright, here's my entry! It's not perfect, but I'm pretty happy with the end-result. =) I never modeled a real interior scene before, so I figured I'd take the opportunity and try my hands at that for the contest. I might do a re-render to touch up some areas later ...

Enter I must, but slim chances are. Will try Senshi best he can! Good luck everyone! =)

Do'w, can't believe I missed that; thanks radience. =) Just had some fun playing with the area lights and I love it! Is there any chance of seeing emitting glossy/ specular materials in the future aslwell? (I.e.: Imagine a semi-transparent crystal emitting a coloured light, but not turning into the ...

Great, can't wait to start playing with this! =) I'm probably missing something obvious, but I decided to install Octane on my MacBook Pro as well, since we now have the (de)activate options. I installed the Cuda 3.0 Drivers and Toolkit, but I can't seem to open Octane. It exits with:
/Applications ...