Vray vs Arnold

Testnick

Hello.
People say Arnold would be better for CG and animations!

I lately dove into Vray and found that Vray is pretty indepth and pretty well organized when it comes to light behaviour, but I didnt check out Arnold.
So I wondered why do people say this?
Does arnold has any benefits when it comes to scene creation? I heard interior lighting would'nt be satisfying.

Now don't get too technical. Just want a few corner points which benefits I would have with arnold when i want to make beautiful scenes.
Rendertime aside.

oglu

cause arnold is made for feature film animation...
its really fast with direct light... but not that fast with indirect gi lighting scenes... 
it work really well with dispmaps, hair, volumetrics...
but its a brute force only render... no light cache no irradiance map... just brute force gi...

think the easiest way to see how its performing is to load the learning scenes and hit render...
https://support.solidangle.com/display/A5AFMUG/Learning+Scenes

vray does have hundreds of features for everything...
arnold does only one thing... render animations brute force...

Testnick

if there would be a side like this http://www.visualcenter.ch/vray-mtl/ for arnold i would take it in consideration.

But other than that I just don't see the benefit of arnold other than it being "simple".
Which is no benefit.

onionhead_o

To me from what I can tell lookdeving in arnold seems to be a lot easier to control for reflection/gloss. We use Vray primarily at work, but would love to try to use it in production. Ive only been able to try it at home.