I am not going to be able to finish this project before the competition ends so I can use the extra time to do some experiments. These two renders are exactly the same when you consider the samples in each render layer. The first render was complete in one hour and 48 minutes, four render layers then composited together. The second render was complete in a total or 24 minutes again using four render layers and composited together. The difference was splitting up the render into two different scenes and rendering each separately. Can you see any difference? I will discuss in greater detail in a future post.

One hour and 48 minutes

24 minutes