haegerst opened this issue on Oct 12, 2015 ยท 40 posts
wolf359 posted Mon, 19 October 2015 at 9:04 AM
"No human face or body is perfectly symmetrical. Even those that seem to be, if you mirror one side to the other the asymmetry becomes pretty apparent. Doing the same to both halves will wind up looking like two different people. Whenever you hear professional sculptors talking about realism in their sculpts they'll always tell you to break the symmetry, but it has to be subtle. That article above is a bit absurd because all it did was distort the example faces so they wind up looking like they're missing a chromosome. But if you mirror those example faces you'll see even those are not symmetrical faces."
I am not Debating wether perfect left/right symmetry is possible in a real life Human Face . I was specifically responding to this oft repeated and frankly silly notion that such perfect symmetry is somehow a major contributing factor to poser renders looking Fake.
Indeed it is those other gleaming Shortcomings I mentioned, that scream "computer Character" That are dead give aways before the observer ever gets to the point of examining left right symmetry
"poorly designed overall topogrpahy that ignores human anatomy ? you know I've seen some very realist looking characters in games. they didn't use topology they used maps".
Indeed sir..and what were those Game Characters doing?? Moving about at what ?... 24fps??
Even in this exciting era of the the unreal and other "Real Time" engines ,there are still many optimizations that game models have that would be unacceptable to a user base that creates primarily still images of most semi or fully nude females.