Faking blurry reflections?


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Any tips for faking or speeding up blurry reflections? (I think some renderers like Vray call it “Glossy” reflections)

Real low-noise blurry reflections seem to be quite slow to render. I can reduce the sampling, but then everything goes noisy and yucky.

I’ve tried rendering out a matte for my object and using that to isolate a blurring effect in post (After Effects), but it doesn’t look great. I’ve also just tried blurring the reflection pass in post. And it’s doesn’t look great.