Okay, one more setup. One of the 2 MCs in my simplistic VN.
Again, inside the car, more or less from the Hollywood dashboard camera angle towards the driver.
The backdrop is Google Street View, the Pacific Coast Highway near Malibu. Changed color and added motion blur effects. HDRI is nice, but it also is overhead for a very detailed HDRI. Photographs, Street View? Easier and quicker. Composite the shot afterwards, get used to working in post.
I hid some of the car components with a section plane node. (Create -> New Iray Section Plane Node)
The Iray engine ignores everything "above" the surface of that plane, so you can set it and rotate it so that it slices up your set in order to create the camera shots that you want, like interior sets that don't normally have things to hide the walls. Just Section Plane it, and you're done.
Anyway, no sexy chick in this shot (he's a good-looking dude, I think, for those who favor the dudes), but process-wise, it's probably useful for some.