Render in cycles looks like a painting in oil

[patent sapphire]

i made a simple render of an ocean in blender rendered in cycles (it was based on ducky 3ds tutorial but with different engines and volumetrics and stuff)
the render looks quite noisy and looks like painted in oil rather than refecting water
im still a beginner in blender
what changes should i make to make it look right?

[warped grail]

Increase the samples

[patent sapphire]

the second one was render in evee

[patent sapphire]

k

[warped grail]

the painty look is the denoising

if you dont have enough to work with it can't get a nice clean look

how many samples did you render at?

[patent sapphire]

i had put a time limit of 7 sec per frame

so not sure

[warped grail]

ah

[patent sapphire]

nearly 500 samples

how much should i put the samples to aprox ?

[warped grail]

woah 500 and still noise

thats weird

[timid meadow]

Side note it looks like you have easing on your keyframes making the water speed up and slow down

[junior shore]

Which denoiser are you using?

Open image denoiser shout be your go to

[sour swift]

500 samples WITHOUT a time limit. Limiting the time per frame, will make your frames have less samples. At 7 seconds per frame, i doubt you'd get past maybe 4 samples.