Quote - Two questions: 1) As xpleet suggests, the size and quality of the render will make a difference; what is your intention for the animation? Is it going online, or on DVD, or Blu-Ray, or all of the above?

2. Is it essential to the quality of your project that it be a single-shot ten-minute animation?

It will be online or possibly on a dvd.  It is not essential that all the project be a single shot ten minute animation. I was thinking of rendering out different scenes and re-using and re-piecing them together in a movie editor.

However I"m curious if VUE is clever enough to know where certain keyframes are being repeated over & over again and will not render redundant keyframes.