OK.  Take your time.  I'd truly appreciate anything at all that you could do to help me on this. 

The animation is for, are you ready for this, the Lighthouse for the Blind.  It's part of a national Christmas shindig they do every year (this is for next Christmas, but everything has to be completed by this April)  for kids and family members of the blind (the ones blessed with sight, obviously).  The illustration is from one of the children's books that the author has somehow become traditionally involved with in participating in the program.  She's busy getting the voice talent and music recorded in a studio now, and I'm supposed to animate to that material.  I'm just trying to collect the models I need and construct the scenes so I can animate everything when the time comes.

Intel Core I7 3090K 4.5 GhZ (overclocked) 12-meg cache CPU, 32 Gig DDR3 memory, GeoForce GTX680 2gig 256 Bit PCI Express 3.0 graphic card, 3 Western Difgital 7200 rpm 1 Tb SATA Hard Drives