If you’ve ever tried rendering a 3min animation scene in 1080p at 30fps on a relatively good PC setup you’ll understand how long it takes. You will love light maps! Light maps boost the rendering performance by huge margins!

There are many different software applications out there to choose from. It doesn’t matter whether your budget is $0 or $1000. Free software exist out there and it’s very high quality. Yes I’m referring to Blender.