Recently I have been learning the 3Delight renderer. I have been very surprised how easy it has been to transfer over from using Pixar’s Render Man products, its a lot easier for artists to set up multiple passes for compositing – and the kind chaps even give you the first two rendering threads for free.

This Action Man utilizes the excellent image based lighting (IBL) shaders, calculated using point clouds. Got this rendered lightening quick, even with expensive stuff like motion blur, displacement (on the hair and towel).

Here are a pick of my render passes:

[Top row from left to right] IBL pass, Fresnel pass, Albedo pass
[Bottom row from left to right], Reflection pass, Index pass, Reflection Occlusion