Putting out the signal, good luck young legend, most importantly even if you don't get the call, you got talent, keep producing and building and most of all enjoying the things you do. You won't need to seek them, they will seek you!
You got this.
And to all that are on that same road
Yall got this too.
Render settings don’t matter nearly as much as you think they do. It’s often not the answer to decreasing noise in your scene. Your poor lighting and texturing optimisation is.
We often feel pressure to be good at every tiny corner of this skillset, to be a god at modelling as well as a lighting guru. Relax, you can take shortcuts. You don’t have to be good at all of it, accept what you don’t like and what you do like and focus on that.
You’re going to need to use tutorials for the rest of your life. You’ve never made before what you’ve never made before. Stop waiting for that day that’s coming when you never need a tutorial again.
One of the best ways to advance your renders quickly is to niche them down. Different renders require different workflows. Find your workflow and stick to it.
Nobody is ever going to learn anything from a Cinema 4D TikTok Tutorial that shows you how to make an epic render in 25 seconds. People are only making them to attract attention to themselves.