Photo realistic Jewellery rendering

I need to do extreme photo realistic rendering images of jewellery. We are quite proficient in 3ds max, vray, rhino, matrix, etc. and know all the basic rendering techniques. But what we are now looking for is a absolute photo realistic rendering 'setup' in 3ds max. The job is to create the correct materials, light setup, HDR environment, camera angle, rendering settings. Once this is done, the setup will need to be passed to us and we will replace the ring with different jewellery models & render them via a render farm. What you will get from us: 1. Some models in Rhino to understasnd what kind of jewellery range we do 2. All the knowledge that we have, including purchased VRAY tutorials, purchased VRAY white / yellow gold metal & VRAY diamond material (these are for project reference only & should not be distributed or re-used) 3. Information & knowledge about what how a diamond and metal materials are in real life so it can be implied in 3DS max. Attached are images of the quality that we are already able to achieve. Please have a look at it carefully and apply ONLY if you think you can surpass it. What we need from you: 1. Re-usable 3DS max file containing correct materials, light setup / HDR environment, 4 scene setup with different camera angles & materials applied in them, correct rendering settings 2. A dummy helper set underneath the plane that rotate 360 degress over 90 frames (frame 0 to 89). We will link the jewellery object to it so we can achieve a 360 degree object animation. 3. Make the diamonds look nice and bright. Since people want diamonds and don't buy jewellery for the metal, making sure the diamonds look perfect is the key for us, which we haven't been able to achieve. Please have a look at [login to view URL] on what is the minimum benchmark we aim to achieve. 3. The rendering time for a single frame should be approximately upto 8 minutes for a 500px+ image on our machine. We have a i7 / quad core processor / Nvdia 640M GeForce GT 2GB graphics card / 8 GB ram (out current setup). The reason we have a constraint rendering time is because we have measured our render farm costs accordingly. 4. A possible question: is there a way we can store the shadows, caustics along with the image instead of storing it on the ground plane (ground plane will be a transparent alpha channel)? The reason is that we want to have more control over the background in photoshop but don't want to loose the shadows and caustics effect generated while rendering. Some read up on it is over here: [login to view URL] Bonus work: 1. Can provide information on how to apply the Adobe After Effects star filter on the diamond to give the diamond a sparkling look 2. Can provide information on how to batch apply any post comp work in photoshop. We have many jewellery models rendering to do so we obviously don't want to apply post comp work in photoshop manually to 90 frames for each jewellery model. This is a job for someone with superior expertise in 3ds max and who wants to achieve nothing but perfection. Since we have already done 75% of the work we expect the freelancer to spend no more than 1 or 2 day on this job. On this job you will also learn a lot of knowledge about jewellery rendering, which is a very valuable skill. So do post your bids considering this ;)