InfernalDarkness,
bows :)
Came up with that as my motto ages ago...makes more and more sense every day ;)
Couldn't get RayDream at the time back then, lol, wanted to model...ended up finding Rhino, later on (thankfully at college so it didn't cost BOTH arms and legs :p)

STALKER shadow of Chernobyl is about best game I've played since XCOM (UFO-enemy unknown, over here). DAMN is STALKER a great game as well as great eye candy. Better than nearly every Hollywood film I've seen in years.

Meh, Hollywood sucks now, sigh. LOTR = fantastic, but, most of the rest is "unrealistic" dross. Compare "The French Connection" to current stuff, which is all super smooth, slick and dead. 
OT, but you know what I mean? There is a serious lack of realism in films at the moment which bugs hell out of me, thus I'd rather play a good game :p

There's a bit in STALKER when the...won't spoil it. ..jumps you in the underground army base ...OMFG...scared crap out of me, fantastic stuff! :)
THAT is great cinema.

Attileus,
for animation I'd love STALKER or Crysis engines as for animation, well, stuff I do, "realism" isn't essential.
But for stills, no, still not nearly as good as Vue etc

Game engines do produce, now, very damn good art, IMHO, some areas of DOOM3 were fabulous. But, if we had render farms and could do wide screen renders 30 FPS...mmmm!!!!

There IS a real time art renderer at moment, but it's for product visualization, can't recall name off hand. So, eventually I'd bet real time will occur.

Holy heck, my current quad core PC renders x10 faster than  P4, which was my last art PC!!! My dual core game/back up rig renders x2.5 faster than the P4. The sheer power being thrown at such things in CPUs..plus fact possibilities of 64 bit are often not fully realized (I'd suspect Vue does use 64 bit effectively, due to massive render increase, even for a quad core??)

:)

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