wolf359 opened this issue on Dec 05, 2003 ยท 18 posts
Mason posted Fri, 05 December 2003 at 5:42 PM
I've noticed an odd thing about the rendering of CG people vs real people photos and noticed this in Final Fantasy as well. When filming real people, they wear lots of makeup etc to smooth skin and remove bumps, scars, moles, shiny spots etc. However, when I see CG rendered people, the artists go out of their way to show off every pore, lump, bump, dimple etc. For example, with this girl, if this were a real photo the nose probably wouldn't be shiny unless she was sweating. If she was an actress, she would never have a shiny nose or chin or forehead. Maybe on HDTV you'd see more detail but usually real people are smoothed out. This kind of reminds me of the old days of video games where the makers tried to create the most realistic renders they could only to end up with actors that looked like the puppets from the Thunderbirds. Its a cool render but it seems like some artists go a little to much out of their way to show every pore.