[Mark]

This has nothing to do with the special effects budgets, I was simply asking if I was the only person disturbed by how scary that tree baby's face looked?

Please don't take this the wrong way, but the "baby's" face (which, just for the record and sticking on-topic, I do think was rather weird-looking) may very well have had to do with the budget.  It may have been the best they could afford (although, granted, I have no connection to the people who are involved in the show, so for all I know that baby face is the look they intended all along and could have done something much different if they'd wanted to).