That's pretty cool. It's more or less what I'm aiming for. Where'd you find it?

What I mainly want to do is make a piece of footage that looks like it was shot by a TV cameraman on a beach that's being hammered by heavy rain and winds. I could buy real-life stock footage of such a scene, but it'd cost me about $900. Screw that!

Sounds good to me, although in a future film I'd like to try compositing live actors shot handheld into a fully matchmoved outdoor 3D enviroment created with Vue. The rendering times would be diabolicaly but I'm sure the results would rock if done correctly. Oh, and DMM, I just took a look at the Syntheyes user manual and it CAN export to Vue (albeit with some difficulty).

If there's not THAT much difference between Maxwell and AR, I'll probably use AR so I'm not in a nursing home by the time my renders finish :) Depends on the results of my test shots.

So say I wanted to use a locked-off camera and Cinema 4D to build my virtual set, where, in your opinion, would be the best place for me to get my models and textures? Turbosquid? Dosch Design? Marlin Studios? Any suggestions? I want to aim for photorealism, so I'll probably use Maxwell to render the whole shebang.

What if used a locked-off camera with no pans or dollies?