Quote - > Quote - > Quote - "I need to pump out commerical level renders in 8-10 minutes tops."

You must compose scenes much faster than I; for me, rendering is the fastest part of the process...

You know, WandW, I was thinking the same thing. It generally takes me several hours to get my character as I want it, THEN the real work begins of populating the world with settings and props, not to mention setting the lights. I guess you and I really do work slowly! 

On any given scene, I'm normally futzing with it from sunrise to sunset, tweaking, retweaking, never satisfied :). Putting it to together definitely takes the longest time ;).