Cyberdemon:
Check out this thread it has a lot of good info:
Finding talent within rendering
In short, you have 2 types of rendering options:
-Standalone visualization packages like Keyshot, VRED, Bunkspeed - tools designed for rendering, sometimes simple animations and nothing else.
All studios have different expectations. Most internal corporate studios are OK with the Keyshot type approach. They let you get 90% of the way in a short period of time, and then will go out to professional firms if they need crazy awesome animations like exploding cutaway shots with circuit boards flying around and particle effects.
Thanks Cyberdemon, and I checked out that thread and it definitely looks like Keyshot can go further than I expected, that Dustin Lee’s work is sweeet and all done in KS I think… I will continue to learn what the program can really do!!