I love the detail cycles gives in the render.
Great dragon and cave/rock.
Yes rendering can take a long time one part of the first version of this course took me 21hrs, older computer, and older Blender. Things are actually a lot better now! I never do a final render in anything but Cycles.
I am so in need of a more powerful computer! Saving up for one but not sure which would be the best for using blender and handling large files with animations. Which system are you using now if I may ask?
That looks fantastic. Great colouration on the wyrm.
I’m under the impression that it comes down to graphics card and nvram for rendering. You could pick up a 2nd hand card from ebay. A high end card from the previous generation of cards would still be good.
I had my computer custom built. Not a brand or premade by any company so I can’t really help there sorry. Windows and NVidia graphics card obviously as a basic parameter.