Last one then I will leave you lot alone, you must be sick of my posts by now.

Went a bit heavy on post-processing.

Octane 2 looks great. Good to see there are hair primitives available. Until the hair and fur is available for the Blender exporter it looks like I will have to be working with geometry. Here are a few renders I did today experimenting with the model with some hair on it.

Thanks visionmaster. No displacement was used here, only details added in Zbrush. I took these details out in my latest renders however.

edit: I did also change the structure of the face.. however, not good for the thread title.

Enough for the day.

A great reference

A bit more of a play, and a bit more later.

Thanks for the feedback chaps.

Rikk, I see what you mean. Hopefully in the next few days I will get some reference material together and make some detailed comparisons.

Another go.. changed the model a bit.

A bit more..

It has been somewhat a long time since I used Octane. Some great new features - SSS especially.

Some tests I did today. I like how I can render out the passes (ie. normal).

I have seen some really crisp renders from Keyshot.

http://www.cadsoftwaredirect.com/images/keyshot_engine_interface.jpg
http://develop3d.com/images/lightbox_images/keyshot_01_lrg.jpg
http://www.solidsmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/keyshot-3-features.jpg

Is such 'crisp' quality render ...