Yeah you can just render it as a regular image if you can't "bake" it. You can even render normals this way too, just create a new Render Layer set to Normals. No baking required ;)
Post your images with IMGUR. Don't attach them like you did. Models look liek good starts, but what's the target render for these? Are you rendering these for a game engine, a CG renderer, or something else?
what you want is NPR(Non Photo Real) rendering. you can do that in many software. in maya you can render NPR with the maya vector renderer or use the mental ray contour shaders.
Looking forward to seeing some updates. As a side project to improve your rendering for your Dalek model I'd suggest looking up linear workflow in relation to rendering and create an IBL and render it in mental ray.
High Poly doesn't matter, just make it clear and pretty as possible in w/e engine/renderer. Just make sure your Low Poly stuff is in a game-engine renderer or real-time renderer.
Open the render dialog, scroll down to 'assign Renderer' and choose Mental Ray instead of Scanline. But he renderer is not really that important, when it comes to image quality...it all comes down to models, materials and lighting...
EQ- why did you find it hard to render out HDR envs, i would suggest that it wouldnt be too hard to render them out of marmoset, multiple renders at different brightnesses compostied together.
If there is anyone around still rendering stuff on a single core CPU a trick with similar results is lowering the priority of the rendering process. This will more or less only let the rendering run when the CPU would otherwise be idle.
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