In this episode, Andrew, DJ, and Marco talk about how optimizing your 3d scene can save your sanity, what aspects of your project could be adding unnecessary render time what you can do to render your scenes faster on a render farm even without much technical rendering knowledge!

Resources:

Optimizing 3ds Max scenes through Textures – Part I -  https://www.garagefarm.net/blog/guide-to-rendering-optimizing-scenes-in-3ds-max-through-textures

Optimizing 3ds Max scenes through Textures – Part II  https://www.garagefarm.net/blog/guide-to-rendering-optimizing-scenes-in-3ds-max-through-textures-2

Optimizing scenes in 3ds max geometry -  https://www.garagefarm.net/blog/guide-to-rendering-optimizing-scenes-in-3ds-max-through-geometry

How to optimize displacement maps in V-ray – part I  https://www.garagefarm.net/blog/how-displacement-maps-work-and-how-to-optimize-them-in-v-ray-part-1

How to optimize displacement maps in V-ray – part II  https://www.garagefarm.net/blog/how-displacement-maps-work-and-how-to-optimize-them-in-v-ray-part-2

How to optimize buckets in V-Ray part I - Option analysis  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBI97xBD_g

How to optimize buckets in V-Ray part II - Troubleshooting hanging buckets  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_xp5mK2UB0

optimize viewport settings

LOD -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_detail

Mipmap -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mipmap

Optimizing settings in V-Ray -  http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/2014/7/hdr-sky-lighting-for-interiors

Optimizing viewport -  http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/2017/4/pg-tips-clipping-planes-focal-point-trick

Blender simplify -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1joLsRZ7VEA

How to link character (or any) assets using collections in Blender -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDK7U8jl_I

C4D Viewport optimization -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tzHQD3cRJE