Hello, I am new here (and in 3D modeling in general). This is my end of section challenge, I am quite happy with how it turned out in general, but every time I try to render this with Cycles it gets grained. Is this normal? I am doing something wrong with the lights?
However, in most cases its a good the activate the denoising, it blurs your picture a bit, but the higher the samples the better the quality. usually you can get a good result with around 500 samples and denoising activated. Without denoising you probably need over 2k samples to get close to the denoised quality.