Just My opinion,
Without access to a $$render farm$$,To render animation of any length or scene complexity
with IRay is Fools gambit.
Have you seen any animated footage in IRay in any of the Official reallusion videos since the release of CC3??
if so please share a link.
RL has much better looking base figures now and the ability to morph them as is done in Daz studio or poser.
lets be honest, in the general Area of Prefabbed human figure programs, we animated film makers are still quite the minority.
Most of the Daz/Poser users are still image makers.
CC3 appears to be RL's attempt to be a central Character creation hub for All of the major Prefab human figure markets
and IMHO RL has made a brilliant move with this effort from a strategic planning point of view.
Around the first week of November Renderosity.com will announce the formation of a strategic partnership with Reallusion in which all of the Reallusion software will be sold in the Renderosity marketplace.
I have been invited to participate in a webinar by one of the renderosity marketplace coordinators on or around November 1st
to Discuss the benefit of CC3 to poser users who have been long callously ignored by Smith Micro.
Renderosity is about to switch its focus from a Dying Poser application to the innovative suite of Reallusion Character products.
There will likely be a similar partnership with Hivewire.com (if there is not already)
Again, smart strategic planning by Reallusion as it puts IRay in the hands of poser users in CC3
which supports the Daz millenium 4 Figure that most poser users still
use, And most of those people only render stills.. not animation.