From now on, I'm not working with models that use particle hair

I spent four hours working on the next animation request, and Blender stopped responding almost every step of the way. After I finally finished it and tried to render it, it crashed every single time.

I even tried using a cloud rendering service. It managed to render some of the frames, but not all of them, because several frames became corrupted for no apparent reason.

At this point, I've spent more time fighting technical issues than actually animating.