Thanks for the feed back so far!
i have put a couple more pics up that were broken, my fav. being the guyver unit.
for the facial animation i have been using morph targets in 3dsmax.
im planning to do a full ep. possibly about 10-20 mins.
about the render times, i was gonna do an anime stylee,(rendering individual frames and using a cardboard cutout type thing.) still experimenting!