After months of failing to find an artist to join the team, I've broken down and am paying for the rendering. Today it started, and we got our first couple of renders done. How long? I suspect the renders and the animations will be done in 2-3 weeks, and then we'll have to test it with the code (already written, but untested). How long that will take, I hesitate to guess; could be me a matter of days, or could be weeks.
Thanks for asking.