Very realistic CGI
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Very realistic CGI
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Re: Very realistic CGI
#2No. Most of the advancements in rendering today made possible even for relatively normal users to achieve realism ( ie. http://www.maxwellrender.com/ ). Most realistic CGI is the one I haven't seen.
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#3I believe it would be cheaper if they just shot it live.
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#4Kneale believes what makes Roman so good is "sheer, raw, talent". For instance, he uses tricks such as reducing the depth of focus to draw attention to certain details, which also reduces the need to carefully reproduce every last blemish on each piece of fruit in view.
I don't think you know what the word "talent" means.
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#5It's difficult to formalize what "realistic CGI" or even "CGI" means. Most of us probably have a loose definition that's something like "the rendered output of 3D models that looks like something familiar in the real world," but that's insufficient.
One could take 100 bitmap frames of video from a camcorder, then use a computer to generate 100 identical or nearly identical bitmap frames. This would be realistic by definition, but not very impressive. Even more absurdly, one could use a computer to generate some abstract visualization, then construct a nearly identical scene in the real world and claim the CGI is realistic.
And yet, CGI that uses 3D scans of objects, motion capture, or scanned/photographed textures probably fits our loose internal definition.
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#6I believe it would be cheaper if they just shot it live.
That's an odd thing to say without knowing how much they paid for the CGI version.
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#7I believe it would be cheaper if they just shot it live.
Also there are some things that you just cannot shoot live... In CGI you can change the laws of physics, for example, you can bring people to live that have died centuries ago, or create imaginary world that are limited only by the human imagination - something that has been shown to be immensely capable.
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#8No. Most of the advancements in rendering today made possible even for relatively normal users to achieve realism ( ie. http://www.maxwellrender.com/ ). Most realistic CGI is the one I haven't seen.
That looks nowhere near as good as Roman's work. It doesn't look real, most of the renders they show are obviously CGI to my eye.
If you're still doubting, just checkout Third and Seventh, it's amazing.
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#9Somewhat disappointing. The subject matter was not a difficult one. Not to say it wasn't well done, but it was not as challenging of a subject as a person or animal would be.
I think Sofronis Efstathiou sums it up nicely in the article. Nice job, but nothing groundbreaking.