Completely agree with JAV, RL's expanding their market. RL's money maker is IC, and it's come a long way since inception with CC3, curve editor, PBR, morphs sliders, ZBrush integration.. There's no plausible reason they'd shift to a rendered stills vendor,  Daz has that cornered.

Although there's a back order on 2080's and IRAY takes forever and a day, these obstacles will be joked about in a couple years. There's a lot of creators who don't want to spend years learning Maya to create animated movies. Tech Titans like Nvidia are setting the groundwork for making them look good.





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CC3 doesn't render animation.

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More interesting than a yes-no fools errand discussion is the question whether and/or when there will be RTX support for Iray. That would make a difference.

And for those happy with an external render solution, please go ahead. That was not the topic of this discussion.

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  I agree  we do need to discuss external animation  render solutions.  Also i wonder if content creators are not happy about external solutions as people will likely create their own content not to mention that unreal engine 4 has at least  13 million dollars of free content people can use . But personally of course i love the content created here as i have purchased much of it before . I find the folks here to be very creative and make wonderfull content . 

I will soon have - REAL TIME - Octane 4 in my apps!

{ except Iclone that is}   - Eevee - eat your heart out!

LoL  =)