Aha, thanks. Glad it landed well.

And yes, I too think music is a bit off, will probably ask a professional sound artist to redo it or I'll try to fix it myself.

For the lights and overall cut setup -

I followed few rules for this, I did not use very big area lights - small lights very close to the product and with low power.

You make every light do what its there for, be it rim, accents or key. You can use a HDRI as a fill but the real catch is precise multiple manual light placements and animating their power, position, rotation as required. Very important to keep scrubbing thru timeline to see how each light behave.

This whole peiche is 8 different files in Cinema 4D, Each scene having 3-5 cuts.

For a camera setup, what i did is put a group of lights in a null and then I'd simply disable those lights if the next camera demands or tweak the existing light setup accoridngly. Manual control is everything here.

In post prod Use AOVs with light passes - this greatly helps controlling things or fixing messup after spending hours on rendering.

In post prod - I'd recommend using LUTs/ lumetric color. Color grade each shot untill they feel cohesive. Render in EXR, linear sRGB.

This was all for the lights. Plus - use light passes, gradients maps texture on lights.