So I was just messing around, testing out some new lighting setups, seeing how fast my new GPU could knock out scenarios. So before supper, I put together a low lit scene all halfassed, and hit the render button. This render I was just testing, to see if it rendered dark scenes any faster.   After I got done eating, I saw the most realistic render I have ever made on my screen. Something like this usually will take several hours to finish on my old setup, this one was just about an hour...

Today I messed around with some render engines, mostly seeing if it is worth learning the rendering and materials inside of blender. It has come a long way since I last tried rendering people in it, that's for sure. I think this test convinced me to take some courses on it. Normally I have been only using blender's great modelling capabilites, then exporting to iray for rendering.  If I can get such decent looking renders out that fast, without knowing much at all about using the render...

This evening, I went to the 2nd annual Chattanooga Hip-hop appreciation festival at Miller Park. Being new to the area, I was very excited to go see what type of talent the area had and the culture of hip hop within the city. Being from the Cleveland, OH area, we had a very respectable underground music scene, and since their are not a lot of music venues in Cleveland unfortunately, their could be a hip hop show with a metal show and everything was so music driven, it upped the talent level...