This is a render I have done of the sequence, I have added lights to cast the farmers silhouette on the door and shadow the face. Through strenuous trial and error tweaking I have knocked the render time down from around 3 minutes to just 38 seconds per frame! (this is at production quality and PAL resolution.) The lighting may still need some work, I think the hand is too bright at the moment:
I need to sort out that handle, its not moving at the same speed of the hand at some points but the animation is almost there (though I said that in the last post).
