The final shot is killing my render times with this blastard wide tree in frame. But the landscape looks very empty as it is and the lighting on the tree looks really nice – so I want it in the foreground. But I don’t have time for 2+ minutes per frame here so I decided to look into the compositing nodes again as I remembered that you could load as image into it. After a little bit of work and some wrangling as the order of the filters seemed to make or break it, I finally got it to work and guess what? 20 seconds / frame!!!! Hahahahaha!
