In conjunction with using Cycles for animation (which looks pretty slick, although time consuming on account of there being no support for texture baking at the moment), I have been working on reducing noise and fireflies that present themselves often when using Cycles. I found a good combination is to use limited global illumination in the integrator to reduce the amount of caustic light bounces, turning off "sample as lamp" for most light sources, and kicking up samples to 1000-2000 for a still shot. Tried out using Cycles for my new resume design.
