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Topics cover during this Autodesk webinar:
1- Advised Render Settings for faster look development work
2- Advance Shading Networks – Using the debug mode to speed up work
3- Converting Bitmaps to TX – TX Manager when to use it
4- Area Light Changes in Arnold 5
5- Render overrides – changing multiple objects render attributes
6- Rendering Curves with Arnold
7- Creating Stand-ins to optimize scene size
8- New workflow for rendering Open VDB – Volumetric Data
9- Faking Indirect bounces to speed up render times by 1000% or more.
10 – Thank you 🙂

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