richardson opened this issue on Aug 26, 2007 · 61 posts
devilsreject posted Tue, 28 August 2007 at 2:09 PM
Quote - personally I saw it as a fake soon as I glanced at it. there's a dead give away that glares.
look at her groin. wrong...! the skin is perfect.. not a mark, blemish or imperfection (if you are that perfect there please call Hugh Hephner at Playboy and get into the magazine.. it'll save him a fortune in airbrushing overheads!) ... and the specular looks like plastic there.
it's not bad work I grant you... but no one else saw that error?
Yes, I noticed errors and continue to pick up on some the more I look at it, but not at first glance. The first time I saw it, my eyes didn't immediately relay a message to my brain telling me this was CG, unlike 99.99% of the realisitc renders I see every day. It took me more than a few moments to realize this was not a real photograph, and I give the artist credit at being the first one to render a human figure, in a still image, that actually had me fooled for at least a few moments. I've seen many architectural and automotive renders that were nearly indistinguishable from the real thing, but almost never a human figure. Unlike the vast majority of renders, I believe this is one that could easily convince the average person into believing it's real.
Both my wife and brother, who have no CG experience, were totally convinced it was a photograph, and I had a hard time convincing them otherwise . They never acted that way when I showed them any of my work, so I was a little insulted by that actually.