Yep, Just did a commercial and was using adaptive rendering (in LW 11.1) which is kind of like choosing a high and low range on encoding a dvd. This cut time a lot, which also made me happy since was doing it on a laptop since my macro is fried.
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Lightwave, Mental Ray and others are even further optimized, not to speak of hybrid GPGPU renderers |