Creating a Visible Rig in Renders

As we are compiling all of our Going Live work together for next week's presentation, I wondered if there was a better way to present rigs instead of just a screenshot. I searched for a way to make rigs visible in renders and came across a relevant tutorial and article. Link Here. I passed on this tutorial to others in the class to use for their rig renders also.
These are the steps I went through:

• Press F6 to go into Rendering mode.
• Select curve.
• Paint Effects - Curve Utilities - Attach brush to curves.

• Look in attributes, turn on 'Forward Twist'.

• Work way through all Nurbs curves.
• Select all 'strokes' in Outliner.
• Paint Effects - Share one brush.

• Attributes - change Global Scale to one.

• Modify - Convert Paint Effects to Polygons.

• Ungroup brushes in Outliner, delete the strokes.

• Group all the brushes and rename to 'Rig Visualisation'.

• Center Pivot, Freeze Transformations and Delete History.
• Hide Nurbs curves.
• Hypershade.
• Create and apply coloured shaders.

• Select all shapes of same colour and apply shader.
• Select F3, quadrangulate in polygons menu for shapes.

To make the Visible Rig move with the actual rig:

• Group all rig geometry and parent to Global Control.
• Select Nurbs control, turn visible rig back on, select rig geometry, then Parent Constrain.

For rendering, I created an Ambient Occlusion layer:

I rendered out the rig on a layer by itself with some directional lights surrounding it:

I then composited these together with a background in After Effects:

Followed the same process for the view of the back: