Here is a Noggin-compare of iClone 7 vs Octane.

The lighting isn't the same, but what do you think? 
Who's Noggin would you rather Nog?





EDIT - 16 minutes iClone, 50 minutes Octane.  

Here is another Head-to-Head (get it?!) comparison of the 2 factions with a G3F avatar:

iClone 7



Octane Render


I tried to really equalize the lighting and everything.  Neither is pushing or flaunting the potential of its respective rendering engine, just a straight head-to-head.

iClone 7 - 900 frames @2160, 18 minutes
Octane - 900 frames @1080p, 400 s/px , 3.5 hrs (6 Titan X Pascal) - I cut corners to get the time down, not the cleanest render (no denoising, would have taken longer!)

I actually find myself liking the 'look' of the iClone one more, but it suffers from what I still call the "Tooning Conundrum". 
Whereas the Octane looks an edge closer to the realish element.
And I don't mean real as in a 'real person', as in, she looks like a real human.
I mean real, as in more like a real object, in 3D space.  (ie a mannequin or rubber doll)

Thanks for sharing the test, Tony.

Relative to a "50-50" tie, I'd score it about 48% iClone to 52% Octane.  Very close.

At this point, I think the bigger change, rather than one renderer versus the other, would be to fine-tune the skin.  Increase the roughness slightly, add some subtle color variations, maybe a minor blemish.  That would decrease the "waxy" appearance.

Nice looking work.  Very nice.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
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Hello, thanks.  Which one did you make the suggestions for, the Octane one, right? (thinking the Octane version, but wasn't sure)

Yes, if forced to pick, I vote for the Octane picture as the winner.

But mostly I'd call it a tie, with minor differences that are mostly "artistic" and subjective in nature.

At this point, I see the textures as more important than the rendering engine.  Your "Morning Glow-ry" images are great.  The textures there are very "real" with variations and flaws in the skin, like what you see on real people.

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iClone 7... Character Creator... Substance Designer/Painter... Blender... Audacity...
Desktop (homebuilt) - Windows 10, Ryzen 9 3900x CPU, GTX 1080 GPU (8GB), 32GB RAM, Asus X570 Pro motherboard, 2TB SSD, terabytes of disk space, dual  monitors.
Laptop - Windows 10, MSI GS63VR STEALTH-252, 16GB RAM, GTX 1060 (6GB), 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD

It's not really a comparison of "renderers" as much as it's - "can I get similar results?".  This is about as good as it gets for iClone's PBR... whereas the Octane it's just the beginning - sub surface scattering alone could take the image a big step closer to reality - combined with better lighting and lens effects (DOF and 'bloom') the difference would be substantial.  The upcoming iRay renderer for iClone would be more of a suitable 'shootout'.

Hi JAV, thanks very much!  
For the question, I was actually wondering which of the versions you had thought looked too waxy, where you said increase the roughness.  I was thinking you had meant the Octane one.  And so now when Illusion Lab mentioned the SSS and lighting for Octane, I kind of increased the probability in my head that's the one you imagined could be touched up.

IllusionLab, yeah I am looking forward to pitting Iray vs Octane vs iClone realtime-PBR, for comparison sake.  I am going to wager Iray will look the best. 
In Daz, I think Iray can go further visually than Octane can.  What do you guys think?

Here is another Head to Head Battle with CC3 Default avatar mesh:
(not matched verbatim, but close enough.)





I like the look we can get from iClone, but I think Octane's powers pull away a little too much.
Like, when I made the render in CC3, I was like, "Yeah...Looks Good!"...
And then I render in Octane and I'm like, "Curse You Tooning Conundrum!...."

But somehow I still like that iClone look, as in style.  You know what's weird, if I rendered in UE4 it would also almost look like a different character model. 
Might be the way features present to the cam or something.

The CC3 one looks calm and relaxed...The Octane one looks a touch agitated, and that in itself is more true to life. 

Here is Unreal 4.23 Preview 7

Raster




Raytrace




And here is Octane with the same scene (without avatar)


I am finding you can push Unreal's look, including Raytracing, much closer to Octane. 
But Octane still is the Champion look-wise.
But speedwise, Unreal is unreal!  - 1sec/frame vs 20 sec frame heavy scene with shadows