rokket opened this issue on Apr 30, 2011 · 260 posts
Vestmann posted Sat, 30 April 2011 at 10:34 AM
Right, I looked up the term "photorealism" and it seems it was quite the art movement back in the day. It refers to painting by using information from photographs. Here's a photorealistic painting that took 70 hours to complete:
http://designrn.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/imagem3.jpg
Now could we please stop diminishing the whole photorealistic art movement by associating it with 3D renderings?
And I agree with Laurie. There's nothing wrong with the "if you can't make it, fake it" mentality of the Poser community. Why shouldn't we try to push every limit of the material room for greater realism or effects? Will it ever produce the same quality as 1000's of dollars worth of Maya's and Mental Rays? No. But who cares. Well, Autodesk would propably look pretty silly if a $250 app was knocking on their door in production value so they might care.
(Why do I feel like I'm echoing thousand posts of the past?)
