How to render faster?

Thank you all for your help, I finished my render:

Click here to watch 0001_0410

as you can see, I have absolutly no idea about how to do animation other than that thing in the begining of the blender manual, does anyone have any suggestions? I’ve heard of using a “empty” to move the character instead of dragging the skeleton, and I’ve also heard of “NLA” what are these?

If you have a good understanding of the armature system then try these:

First:
http://argoslabs.com/~malefico/tutor/walking.html
teh this one next

Second:
http://argoslabs.com/~malefico/tutor/nla-en.html

Also you can go through the tutorials here
http://mmaigrot.free.fr/didac-blender/nla/eng/index.php