hey thank you so much! the fur was my primary concern but the foliage shader + dithering function + TAA made it pretty easy on the GPU, i couldn’t believe it, so again big thanks to UE tech 
and the polycount seems like a thing of the past considering how much the mammoth model took. ■■■■ i can’t wait to try this in VR or make it an interactive level, editing the video made the whole thing loose it’s magic a bit. so i hope to keep this thread alive a bit longer. tnx again!