"I hope there ll be a patch that reduce renderer time." If you use the network rendering capability on a seme-decent farm, and stay away from HDRI with things like motion blur (which can be comped in post), then there should be no problems using Vue 5 for animation. Sure, it can't do many of the advanced techniques that the pros do, but for a hobbyist, there's no reason it's not good for animation. You should be more concerned with how smooth the renderer outputs an animated scene with moving camera and moving objects together... is there flickering, pixel crawling, roping or banding in the final output? These are things that concern animators the most, because they're harder to correct. Rendertime isn't THAT big a deal to a hobbyist anyway (which most users of Vue 5 are). They're not going to be animating things over 2,000 frames in most cases, and if they find themselves wanting to do more, then it's time to add some more machines to the render farm, or move up to a more powerful animation package.

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.