Birthday Greetings from Germany

Here we have a fun special effects test also courtesy of FekLeyrTarg. He's been playing with Switchlight Studio and built this nifty clip featuring Perry Naval Base to wish us a happy birthday!

A new VFX test demonstrating the capabilities of the upcoming Switchlight Studio, which is capable of extracting PBR-Material Maps from images and videos featuring people. These can be used to place any subject in any virtual environment (360° HDRI or even a 3D set) with the lighting properly interacting.

In this case, after greenscreen chroma key I placed myself in Admiral Terrell's office from "Wing Commander: Privateer" in Blender. The original model was released with the Privateer 3D Archive. After rendering using Cycles, I went back to Switchlight Studio to further improve the render with better subsurface scattering etc. Final compositing, cut and audio mix was done in Premiere Pro.