Ancient Ruin

I have been working on an Ancient Ruin for the beginning of the Amazing Math video, I spend a bunch of time trying to get a tree to look like... well a tree. However Even what I have here on these simple renders is very CPU intensive, so I did a simple comp test to see weather the ruin would look believable in a actual real life environment. I was pleasantly surpassed to find that it worked quite well, sure not photo realistic, but believable enough for our prepossess. So we may be comping this Ruin into a real Jungle instead of a 3D one, as it is faster, and looks better.