I just had another idea pop into my head for you, Bob. In many films, the director of photography is known to use camera tricks to make certain items looks big, or people small, in an environment. A recent one that comes to mind first is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There's a scene where Jim Carrey's character is beneath a table and the set is altered to make him look like a small boy. How they did that was with camera tricks of perspective, and a really, really long table. No CG involved.

Perhaps another solution, where you can, is set your camera off in the distance from a normal sized figure, scale your props up, and set a deep DOF to blur out the foreground, then increase the size of the Studio lens 'zoom'. Might be worth a try, once you get the root of your problems squared away.

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