In the middle of the night, while Julien slept, he dreamt about being bigger.
I have 108 frames done now, which means things are really slow going.
I originally completed 183 frames for the animation... when I figured out that Julien was floating above the bed by quite a bit. I really had to fix this, so I had to start all over with the render. I noticed it when I added movement from frame 600+ to remove how static he was. I also added 300 extra frames at the end where Julien wakes up, so there are now 1300 frames instead of 1000, which means it will take a long time to finish this if it takes like 9 hours to do 30 frames.
I might need to choose to go for lower quality animations in the future. I'd say this is all a learning experience for me. I don't have a strong enough GPU for the high quality animations I want to make, so it uses my CPU, which takes forever. I got more RAM, but it does nothing for the rendering. I can't really start rendering any other animation I am working on because of this, but I will keep making image content.