Render problems....AGAIN!!

Yes again we have had render problems, it must be a curse. But alas we have been more lucky with the footage that we have actually got rendered. The main problem being with the character. The corridor scenes worked fine with the character in it and rendered off perfectly, however the problems seemed to occur in the beefy room. With the character in the scene the renders didnt work at all on the render farm and kept on failing. However when the character was removed the scenes worked fine and we had to use stills in the end for the beefy room. However the renders worked perfectly when rendered to the local drive but were taking far too long and with the time we had left to finish the project off, we were simply not going to get it done. However we had enough footage of the animated character in the corridor to get away with it.
I am dissappointed with this because I had done alot of work with the character in the beefy room and to have it all dropped for hand in is a shame but im not going to give up, Im gonna go back and render it out and make the film again for showreel purposes.
The thing that i am pleased with is my after effects work. Rather than the stills being motionless, I created moving title sequences on the screen as if it was a computer. This makes the scene more real and less dull so in a way all my animation work has been a success. I feel that my animation and after effects knowledge and skills have developed far on this project and Im happy with what I have produced. I know it can be better but this will come with experience and practice.