I would be surprised but, I saw he mentioned he used Vray.
Such a wonderful renderer

. Its become a defacto pipeline weapon in my personal and daytime work. Still 110 days, must be using it on a single machine. Thats a ton of animation for a single workstation. Yikes. Bravo!
That aside, the whole piece was great. Animation, editing, FX, are all very effective and well executed. Thanks for the link. He will be finding work easily if he gets this demo out there.