I believe you used too much saturation and the DOF in my opinion should be more pronounced to focus on one thing which is the car.
As this is intended to become a part of a possible future comic book, variety is a choice, and there will be many more images on this theme. Also, the focus is not only on the cars. It is the whole rally, characters, landscape. I add some Dof/Motion blur effects for depth and speed when required.
About the saturation, I agree but there are two reasons : I used -20% of saturation at render time in Octane, but it is not much visible because I generally don’t save in jpeg for the web special format, and the saturation looks different according to the browser used to display the images. The other reason is that I don’t want to reduce the saturation more than -20% because the images will loose too much saturation for printing.
Hi Impreza09, My CPU is an intel Quad X9650 at 3GHz. I have only 8GB of System RAM (the maximum possible on my old Asus P5k motherboard), but I render on GPU with Octane on two GTX 580 3GB in an external Cubix Xpander pro2. It is a big box with a big 750W power supply, hosting my two GTX 580, connected to my PC by a special PCIE cable.