We have been experimenting with using autodesk showcase for rendering. It has a very advanced ray tracing engine which creates very impressive results.
I was just wondering if any other teams have toyed with it at all.
Here is a screen shot of a ray traced render that took a few hours to complete on an intel Core Duo E6300 cpu. I just need to fix the orientation of the robot lol.
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa82/spacegy4/showcaserender.png