Lately we’ve been working on our rendering.  I thought we could do better, so we’ve been tinkering with our pipeline.  I’ve been testing out a mixed render system, similar to what the big shops use, adapted to our smaller shop setup.  As most of our client work is under some kind of NDA, I thought sharing some test samples might be a good way to show what we’ve been up to lately.  These are frame grabs from animation tests (emphasis on tests), so the detail and accuracy are not necessarily what we’d shoot for in a project, but they’re good practical examples of what we can do using our new-fangled approach.