I had the great privilage to work with Shed mtl last winter. I learned to use RedShift which is an amazing hardware renderer that makes lighting Faster than ever without loosing quality.Here is a project we made to advertise Oculus. I worked on the shadding, lighting, rendering and compositing for these shots.
check it out:
http://shedmtl.com/en/work/detail/oculus-website/
