Ok..that sounds like a lot...

Lol... WOW ^^;

well at least the end-product is worth the wait! :p

Heh its not much of a wait really. While the computers are taxed rendering there is still some power left to continue work ^^ The initialization part is the killer though. A 12,000x12,000 Photo Shop layered image is used used for textures. There is a displacement map, a density map etc, of a which is converted into raw prior to rendering... this can take up to two minutes more or less... So after the initial render , render times will be reduced dramatically. I especially like what its doing around the hips and just above the tail...

Render farming I see

hmm... I do wonder why the pictures is of the butt and groin area tho *snickers*

Maby its a fox thing ^,~

*Vixenizes Rico and feeds her tail to the yiffy masses* XD I'm not perverted, honest!

Like I wuld bleve THAT! *snickers*

I actually had that question come to mind immediately as well. Not that I mind the view though. It's very nice fur rendered to texture. I was hoping for more volume though.

*smirks* oh this is no texture XD Adding more volume and poofing out hair guides ;)

sweeeet.
300k strands only?! I kind of ... don't believe, considering the render time and the good coverage. I've never gotten away with less than, like, an order of magnitude more strands in order to get coverage like that. If it really is 300k, it leaves me wondering if it's tool differences, or if I need to work on my efficiency. Either I'm doing something terribly noobish, or we're counting differently, or Blender is doing something completely different to build the strands. I must know T_T ... Does that not include dynamically generated children? Is that view-clipped? Is that per-strand AO or cheating with a baked map from rest pose? Give me all your secrets arrrrgh

12k texture? wtf^2, there's your RAM usage. What, are you planning on doing 1:1 poster prints?