Complications In rendering(god im sleepy)

We've been rendering for weeks, and i mean weeks. Mostly because of idiot mistakes.

the Main Goal we are trying to achieve is a decent looking car covered by ice, then turns to ice transition. However as the ice model of the car we have is OLD. and i've updated the car. the ice model is a bit, OFF.

I wanted it remade but within the new time constraints its not all that possible. So one batch of renders was alright, but a few things were noticed that we really don't want. the way the ice covers the car as if there was a blanket of ice hanging in the air. then the car drives through it to be covered. Not what we want. so i spent a good 15 -20 hours editing each frame to erase that blanket of ice and only keep where the ice is deformed by the car going through it.

It still needs Some cleaning up but after a while it worked.

With that, i took the layers i edited, and then took the layer of the car, and then the background and pieced them together in Premier Pro. and another problem presented itself, Dan's scene doesnt have shadows turned on!!!... RE-RENDER.

After about... 5 re-renders of some of the main transformation scenes cameras. i beleive we have what we want for a transformation. it isnt as creative as we hope. but with the new deadline of may 30th sacrifices must be made. Im very sleepy from all of this. but the frames need more cleaning to be a bit smoother and not have the shadows of some things show up. But after editing hundreds of frames 1 by 1 by hand in photoshop. I think it's High time i shove the clean up process onto dans lap.

All thats left is to render the last 10 or so seconds of the scene. then add in some nice text here n there. and bam all visuals complete. I just Need to see if i can get FL to work and remix some sound into this Advert. Im Exhausted!!!