Tried doing a render with Quinn and seperated everything like you said. Quinn ended up taking about 4.5 hours, I didn't finish the rest as the room alone was already at 4 and had probably another 2-3 to go. Might be the lighting I do that makes it go slower, got some new stuff I want to try out.
This is the one I did using the canvases the way I have been for a few weeks now, it took about 6 hours and maybe 15 minutes to combine everything in photoshop. Also for some reason depth of field is never very strong for my renders, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
