Techical and misc informations, goals

My goals with this short film:

-learning of: making story and storyboard, animation, rendering, compositing
-creating a professional look render and animation
-creating a cute and beautyful short film
-maybe selling the result somehow (tips wanted)
-popularize Blender :-) and using mainly free programs
-one man project (yes, I will make everything)
-creating a good reference for me

Technical goals:
-very fast render (1-2 minutes per frame at hd resolution at my AMD4600 dual core CPU), no raytrace, using only shadow buffer lamps, using baked  shadows  sometimes
-making content that easy to use in real-time render (for example in a game): lowpoly subdiv models with normal maps and using standard (not complex) shaders