This is the unadulterated (no photoshop / no compositing) final version. Hoo-ray! Now to super-impose a better looking bearskin rug (NO MENTAL RAY--only software render!) and replace the photo in the frame with something tighter and straight. Again, mental ray is not ideal in this particular way, since it gives it a 'painterly' feel at the sacrifise of crystal-clarity.
This was rendered in multiple passes:
1.) everything minus the chandeliers and bear - 2.5 hours
2.) the bear - 1.75 hours
3.) chandelier 1 - 30 minutes
4.) chandelier 2 -30 minutes
I found that turning off the layers that won't appear in the 'red box' segment greatly reduces my rendering time. The fur was the ultimate liability, crashing Maya as well as my computer system multiple times.
But as my French-Canadian ex boyfriend would say, "I will sleep less stupid!" And I discovered an incredible trick to pull Maya out of an seemingly inevitable crash on my pc: CTRL + ALT + DEL, Processes tab, then start closing down superfluous programs (anything that doesn't directly run Maya), like your anti-virus, etc. Like magic, I kept Maya from crashing and losing a bunch of work. It was incredible...
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