Tips for faster rendering?

I need to create a 30" commercial and I am thinking about using mainly Blender…

It won’t be anything terribly complicated… I don’t want to use textures and probably just a light blue background… Maybe some clouds? dunno… but any tips for faster renders? As of now rendering an HD movie takes 8 hours for about 185 frames (I have a feeling I’m doing something wrong)… Fortunately this commercial will be SD, so a lot smaller pixel dimensions… Anyhow, any advice would be appreciated…

Thanks!

Check out this article from Bender Guru.
http://www.blenderguru.com/13-ways-to-reduce-render-times/

Dave

Having a lot of people help with the rendering can make it go much faster…
Check out RenderWeb