What sort of timeframes do you see for your commercial work, and how do you meet the challenge of producing the final deliverables on time?

I often work with CAD material, so after "cleaning up" the files I focus on lighting and setting up materials and doing textures. My timeframe for production is quite generous most of the time, so longer render times for unbiased rendering isn't a issue.

I can get good results with Indigo relatively quickly, since its progressive nature is convenient for preview rendering. You very quickly get an impression of the final image including lighting & materials, even for complex scenes and situations. I also always use a slave renderer via network which speeds up previews and final renderings a lot. Network rendering is child's play in Indigo and you get benefit for each slave in your network without any hassle to set things up and allocate stuff, directly after hitting the render button your scene gets automatically transferred to the slaves and they join rendering.

Since Indigo is a unbiased renderer without many abstract settings and options to tweak for hours like other render engines, you end up quickly with great results! I also prefer to work 1h setting up Indigo scene and render for 5h, than setting up a scene for 5h and render only in 1h! This is a very important point, since you can always render projects over night and you get a great looking image for breakfast :)

You're well known as a power user in our community, using almost every available feature in Indigo. Which features have you found to be especially useful in your work?

It's hard to point out single features, the whole package is quite solid and a great tool to work with:

• Unbiased Rendering: You don't need to care much about tweaking lights, materials and advanced options a lot to get a natural and realistic look.
• Network rendering: Its easy to use computers in your home network to speed up previews and final rendering. Less waiting for previews results in faster workflow!
• A fast reacting and community friendly development team. Problems with exporters & Indigo itself that are reported get fixed quite fast. The frequent beta release cycle enables each user to work with new features & fixes while they are still fresh & warm.

Why do you use Indigo Renderer?

I had the chance to follow Indigo development since version 0.5 years ago. The images people rendered in Indigo blew me away, so I started to play around with it to tame this beast for my needs. The high (beta) release rate of Indigo builds was very encouraging to stay with this software, well... and I'm still here :) Once Indigo went commercial I grabbed one of the lifetime licenses, so I'll stay around for some longer ;)

Thanks for taking the time to do this feature, and of course for your valuable presence on the forum :)

You are welcome.