After animating I had 8 different files that require rendering. I was rendering after I finished each scene that I was happy with.I decided to render at 720 x 486. I chose this format because each time I used a bigger size the render was going to take over six hours to render 300 frames. So by using a size lower I would render 300 frames in less than four hours.
My scenes all had a skylight in them; I set the ‘rays per sample’ for the skylight to 8, which was a good compromise between the quality, and render time. Depending on the specific scene I was rendering each scene between 0.55 to 1.02 minutes.