Do your own snazzy home computer graphics tricks with this tutorial. All you need is a digital camera, a fast computer and about $6000.00 worth of software. Tshaw! [via BoingBoing]
All you need is: A digital camera A reflective sphere (which you see in a few photos) to capture the lighting of the real-life scene which you want to composite your model into. A small program called HDRShop. Big program called 3D Studio Max. and finally you need a good renderer such as VRay.
Or just use Blender…
Hmm…will Blender do this, DM? HDR Lighting appears to be more than just 3D, it’s some sort of clever lighting stuff. With hardware too.