Quality versus Render Time
How much quality should your final renders have? As much as possible.
How long should your renders be? As short as possible.
Obviously, the answers to these two questions are at odds with each other. While your renders, eventually, will have to take some nonzero amount of time to produce, there is no reason to gratuitously jack up the render times with foolish choices. Before we talk about final sets and props, materials, and lighting, we should look at some of the basic principles that will help to keep your render times as short as possible.
Once again, it is worth pointing out that 10 seconds saved on a 3 minute render time spread over 2,000 frames (which equals just over 1 minute of animation) will save 5 and one-half ...
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