Quote - > Quote - yeah, i know he said just over a year, but he also said the first 6 months was trial and error.

He also said two minutes were cut out in the final edit, so it's probably a wash. 

I'm honestly not trying to start a pissing contest or anything.  I'm genuinely curious: was this rendered in DS?  Is it possible?  (And if the answer is no, it's not a bad reflection on DAZ.  I kinda doubt it could be done in Poser, either.)

They are quoting his e-mail to them. DAZ_Rand has been very open about lots of stuff over there.

I myself think it's very possible to have done much of it in Studio as the 3Delight render engine is no slouch when used properly. I'm also convinced after months/years of mis-information from users that many are idiots and don't have a clue how to do anything correctly. Blender has improved dramatically over the past year in usability so for one person to be able to use it to make a movie, I could accept that, but it would've needed a team to use it before. I think it was used for effect shots along with real footage like VideoCopilot has available for compositing. The movie looks to me like it has a lot of compositing.