What they said....with additions.... ;P Vue can have long render times; and when you are doing animation, they seem even longer. This is where experimenting in the advanced render options will come in handy. There are lots of settings, and some of them are utter resource hogs. Volumetrics, for one, are infamous for eating time. Not arranging your scene in proper layers can also add a =lot= of time (remember Vue is a ray tracer. If everything is in one layer, or scrambled as to placement and 'depth', then Vue has to throw the full ray count at -every object- at the same time. Whereas if things are arranged in logical layers, it will prioritize and assign levels of tracing detail, and that will speed things up. Same with volumetric effects). If you plan on dabbling in animation, having at least 1 renderbox will cut your rendertime by up to 50% (assuming equivalent computers. A slower box won't give you quite the same speed increase, but better some than none). Basically, it's TANSTASFL. Your results are determined by the time you're willing to invest.