I'd like to get some opinions for you guys about the best way to improve my skills at product visualization.
In the past I've used v-ray, maxwell, arion, and thea but never had any real training on rendering, just trial and error/ self taught and free tutorials etc. I'm currently running c4d and corona obviously, but my direct boss has come to me saying "our render looks ^%$^, what software do we need to be using to get our renders looking like these guys?" (shows me a competitors website that I'm 99% sure are running max+v-ray.)
I've explained to him that you can great artists can produce great renders from any number of packages, and that any issues with our renders say more about my skills than the software we're using, and he's happy to fork out for training as a result.
I'm wondering what you guys would recommend in this situation?. Would a physical sit-in v-ray training course be my best bet? (I'm thinking the lighting, shading skills etc would be pretty transferable to corona...) or maybe there's online self-paced training that might be a better option?. any suggestions would be appreciated.