I'm guessing he did 24fps. That would save rendering time. I bet there was a ton of compositing done and I thought it looked like some Stonemason sets in there like Streets of Asia.

Since he switched to a Mac Pro, those suckers can crank frames out, especially if he has dual Xeon processors. If you watch your texture sizes, use of lights, limit raytracing of reflections and refraction and composite, you can save a boatload of time with DS and 3Delight. Too many people think 3Delight is slow, when in reality, it isn't. It's just they try to put too much in to one render and both the DAZ and 3Delight sites tell you not to do that.

24fps x 60 = 1,440 frames per minute

9.5 x 1,440 = 13,680 frames

Saying 5 minutes a frame to render, 

5 x 13,680 = 68,400 minutes divided by 60 = 1,140 hours divided by 24 = 47.5 days.