If there's a camera movement, well then I just do it all together because it's essentially the same amount of time, but if the camera stays in one place, comp them and save hours. If I can, I try to do the characters in an alpha channel without the background to save time, and then just render out a frame of the background to comp them together. I render in anamorphic scope setting at 720x306 (but you can do it in 1:85 if you want, or even IMAX is an option they have!) Right now I'm rendering a shot that I've gotten 12 frames of 110 completed in 14 minutes.
I animate everything in Iray in Daz right now. iClone may be beyond your budget though a sround-tripping capable version is pretty close to a $1000 dollars. I think you might be able to get iClone 6 for free if you want to try & animate in it before purchasing a full version of iClone so ask iClone support about that. Although I haven't tried those animations you make in DAZ Studio should then be exportable as FBXes (without the skinning) for retargeting and refinement in Blender, for example. It is easy though to get mediocre animations very fast in DAZ Studio much faster than in any other tool I've used for sure although I've not used iClone that others have used. It's not hard really but even if the tools were top notch animation is lots of tedious correction of intended animation movements with your 'storyboarded scenes' serving as keyframes (the most interesting dramatic scenes you'd choose for DAZ stills to render) if you want to look at it that way. If you do actually render in DAZ Studio then search YouTube for DAZ 3D's own short tutorials on how to animate in DAZ Studio. There are 100s if not thousands of videos on all aspects of Blender on YouTube that are much more skilled at Blender than I so I'm not going to waste time telling you the merits of Blender. You'll want to add voice and other sounds in Blender or some expensive 3rd party package so sorry, if you though you could avoid Blender you can't, even early silent films have music sound tracks. Render in 640x480 size frames if you render in iRay.
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