IMHO, it's a fine line, Mason. We don't see the bumps or imperfections for a couple of reasons: (1) because the camera hides most of them and (2) because we don't look for them. Next time you rent a movie, watch the close-ups, and you'll see that makeup can only go so far when it comes to creating that illusion of clear, perfect skin. We do the rest by just ignoring them. But with CGI, we want to see them because it establishes the CGI's "non-existence", as it were. Sure, right now they're going overboard with the imperfections, but that's just par for the course. Eventually they'll find the happy medium, and then we really will be wondering what's real and what isn't. And I'll find out who it was, but someone in Italy recently (within the last two years) had a "virtual" fashion show to show off his/her new line; it was broadcast on the web as well in a shortened form. It was an intruiging experience, to say the least. But what's going to have to happen there is a better way of creating and controlling (and rendering) cloth, and that's still a bit of a ways off.