global illumination is looking useable for animation
in preference to a WHOLE Howie Farkes scene that is!
I did a 8000x4000 spherical render of country lane 2 then using a shadow catcher plane stuck my character in an empty scene with it as a background.
getting 22secs a frame so far
1459 of them to do yet!
oh and some sneakiness coming up,
she is 50% in the first frame, 300% near the end as she goes the other side of the ball joint restrained camera as it pans around, I resize her a few times as it pans around to keep her in proportion to the background, a lot of spot rendering!