I’ve been watching Bunkspeed closely ever since I first saw them demonstrate their iRay rendering capabilities at an NVidia event.  The incremental rendering capabilities from iRay seemed a perfect fit for their product, and now they’ve taken it to the next level with their new Shot Pro.  Shown above is a beautiful rendering after only five minutes of rendering, done on a laptop with a Core i7 1.73Ghz processor and an NVidia 5000m GPU.

And this is the result after another five minutes of adding a new environment and adjusting the camera. Done while the previous image was rendering, made the process go a bit faster, even though you could definitely feel the lag while the adjusting the camera and adding new environments. Adding new cameras makes it simple to have multiple views of the model and additional lighting settings bring options to the environment that will make a huge difference in final render. Play with them. Learn them. It makes the results worth it. Now this is an image engaging enough to show someone. And with it done on a larger assembly all within the time of 30 minutes proves it’s worth in creating a more realistic image.

via Bunkspeed Steps it Up a Notch with Shot Pro [Review] – SolidSmack.com.