Yes, I Think I am capable of creating what I have in mind... I like the idea you have of trying one frame and extrapolating from there what total render times would be. Has anyone tried XTune from tyhe makers of XFrog. I also have XFrog and love it for creating beautiful trees to render elsewhere. My concern with XFrog (and Vue for that matter) was the potentially huge render hits from multiple trees over the course of 15-20 second animations. XTune appears to nicely reduce the polygon count... I think it's time to try their fully functional demo...