Hi everyone,
first post here. I tried a search to see if this has been covered, but couldn't find anything that specifically addresses it, so I apologize if this is a repeat thread...just point me in the right direction if it is.

I just finished an animation that I would like rendered. However, when I try to render it, it goes AMAZINGLY SLOW...after 3 hours of render time, it only has 9 of 200 frames done. Is this typical? I know it probably depends on what's in the scene. I don't really have any lighting, have one particle generator with a turbulence and vortex field on it, couple of polygons and a few spheres, but that's about it. The camera is animating around the scene. I did the render optimization thing, don't have any raytracing (don't even know what it is!), and I followed that render video on this site. If anyone has any advice on speeding up the render (don't wanna wait 60 hours for a craptacular first scene) please let me know.

I have a PB 1.67ghz G4 w/ 1.5G of RAM if that makes any difference. If there's anything I can do to help answer the question, please let me know. Thanks in advance!