This is what they call 'photorealism'

Possibly the most realistic 3D comp i've ever seen...

http://www.cyblingdesign.com/images/russell.jpg

One word: wow

At this rate of shear brilliance, actors won't be needed soon...(done in Maya 4 by some Japanese dude)

I give up...

Holy crap!

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very nice indeed.

OH MY GOD, that is amazing.

I've seen more realstic models, but that's the most realistic human model i have ever seen.

God damn that guys good!

:eek: thats amazing. well, for the most part.

look at the straps he has on by his shoulders and his ears, i can sort of tell theyre 3d and fake, but everything else, WOOOW!

Damn.. You can tell from the hair and stuff that its rendered

yea, maybe a LITTLE bit from the hair but i can mainly tell from those straps and the ears

the thing is that it's rendered with a projection map of the actual actors face. it does look amazing from that angle, but move it and it loosely the effect completely.

as far as actors, there's a LOT more to be done aside from single-shot photorealism before we even think about it. human motion is a lot more complex than you prob realize...

chris

I know...IK has to be the hardest thing to do in a 3D package. But even still, we're a lot closer than we were 3 years ago...

Woha.. nice... checked out his site... more nice renderings there.