As for the render times could your clients have paid for a render farm. I use these all the time. Though my animations are 20 seconds for the most. So it ranges in the $400-$600 range. Yours look like $3000-$4000. Just a thought though.

Many thanks. This was a personal project I set myself to show the car I had designed in motion, so I wasn't able to have the luxury of a render farm, though I did have access to 3 different computer to render over a network. I discovered when adding motion blur in Cinema 4D that the DOF pass was overwritten, so I was unable to include this on the tunnel shots (except one shot where it was manually added). My original desert ending consisted of the 2 shots you mention, but I felt a single pan from sun to road felt more natural, and that's what I finally used. Also, this desert shot was intended to be a bit of an 'extra' - the 'escape' from the tunnel is the ending, and the desrt shot is just a brief glimpse of what the Venom V8 escaped to. :-)

I liked the pan down from the sun to the 2 desert road. The other shot I was talking about was the logo. It's very obscured. I was saying that dissolve could be quicker and which would naturally get you into the last shot quicker.

To repair the end quicker in terms of work flow I would render the last shot with multi-pass and composite in after effects. Much quicker workflow. May take you only 1 or2 days complete that way versus Cinema.

I followed the W.i.p. on another forum, the animations are really well made, I like in particular the camera's movements...

Bye

Thanks Matteo. I felt the camera shake helps add an extra element of realism (without trying to overdo it)!

Lethal dose - I might have another play with the arrangement of the ending. I'd like to use light text/logo on a dark background instead. Also, perhaps I'll cut straight from the white-out of the tunnel exit to the sun/desert shot, and end with the logo screen.

Great short (it really looks and feels like a short)! Your rendering is awsome and the concept model is amazing. Congratulations! C4D at it's best.