Oh man, do I freakin’ love this! Really top-shelf sci-fi! Beautiful all around! Great job bro! I think the title might be working against you some, because smokers are shunned these days pretty hard. Unfortunately I still smoke about a half pack a day, but I can understand why. With a title that has nothing to do with smoking or cigs, I think you will get much more action in this tread yo. ; - )
Also, I personally left Octane for E-Cycles after 6+ years, about two years ago, but Octane’s displacements in GPU is something that I very much miss. It does indeed rock, but I didn’t need most of the other bells+whistles in my workflow. And I love working natively with PrBSDF and don’t have time or patience to convert…
Again, this is really wonderful work. Thanks for sharing it with us!