Also, whilst an animation seems to be a long arudous process, bear in mind that you are asking it to create 235 or so completely separate renders. If one frame render of that image takes 1 1/2 minutes, then you're looking at a total render time of 352 1/2 minutes, or almost 6 hours. Even if you're doing an incredibly basic scne, with minimal lighting, an it only take 30 seconds per frame, that's still 2 hours total time - which seems like a lot when you're used to rendering out single frames.

The best bet for rendering animations is to do it at a time when you're not going to need the computer for anything else - when asleep, for example, or at work, or cooking dinner. This way you're not tempted to keep coming back and checking how it's doing, it gets on with its job, and when you do finally get back to your computer, you have (hopefully) a lovely little surprise waiting for you...

... at which point you realise that you've forgotten to conform one piece of clothing, and it just sits there in the middle of the damned thing doing nothing, nad oyuhave to render the whole thing again (not that this has EVER happened to me, obviously!!)

JonTheCelt