. . . Ten ways to make a 5 minute render take forever . . .

1) Add another light to the basic set

2) Use refraction, like on everthing

3) Turn on shadows, on all lights

4) Use reflection, again make everything shiney and new!

5) Add another light, help viewers see all your wonderful 3D art.

6) Use transparency, especially with refraction on 3D objects with high displacement map settings

7) Use lots of realy large textures, nothing wrong with 4Kx4K

8) Include multiple hi-ploy characters and models, like maybe every 3D babe you have,
and for a change, dress them all with lots of clothes.

9) Remove background image and replace with full trextured 3D background model,
after all, this is a render, not 2D art!

10) You guessed it, add more lights, maybe one more for every color of the rainbow!

Now you can start your render on your dual chip - quad core per CPU super system,
( err, like I have one of those - Not!) and come back in 24 hours to see it 30% done!

Just for laughs,

Mcv