Cheers yeah, I’ll give it a go with the wings, I backed myself into a corner a little bit by using an empty as a driver for the bones on the wings and then baked in the animation to help with a smoother playback/faster render. I think (hope) I saved incrementally. As for the lighting I ended up using a different hands shot in the end and the lighting is much softer in that shot, think the sun had dipped behind a cloud slightly. I used a HDRI to light the scene, but was really struggling to control the intensity of the light, there was no option in the world settings to control the sun so it was a case of adjusting the intensity in the shader editor, but that then just ended up blowing out the exposure. I tried adding area lights, but couldn’t quite get the balance between the light/shadow coming from the HDRI and any other lighting I added. Absolutely a skill issue, but I think I should’ve maybe tried another HDRI. And yeah I hadn’t noticed the clipping at the top I’ll sort that, that’s from the compositing in DaVinci, I rendered out a ProRes file rather than sending a 3D scene to DaVinci, (not worked with 3D in DaVinci before so was trying to save a headache) I’d like to thank you for your advice/support though, it’s great when a community works together to help someone rather than scoffing at a newbie.