Reply #32: Thank you for that [View All]

[Occulus]

A quick look at the CG Society forum links for each of those pictures shows that, far from what zazen is saying, the images and the artists were given very high honors for their work. Coming from that crowd, that's quite an achievement.

Photoreal humans are, simply put, the very very most difficult images to produce. For example, in "Portrait of a Girl", look closely at her right elbow. It's not.... quite... correct. The folds of skin above the elbow joint are ever so slightly off from the proper anatomical location.

It's a flaw only another CG artist could ever find, but that should tell you (the editorial "you") just how picky these people are. In this case, "Portrait of a Girl" is nearly perfect- proper shaders used for the skin, the lighting is dead-on accurate, and even the hair- something notoriously difficult to do- is nearly flawless.

In short, it- along with most of the other images showcased there- is a masterpiece worthy of any artist's portfolio.