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Recent Examples of photo-realism
The new model, by contrast, can generate clear text, maintain a consistent protagonist over multiple images, and faithfully replicate artistic styles ranging from hand drawing to photorealism.
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Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2025
Animation appears to be a popular way to get around the photorealism limitations.
—Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
However, the move to complete photorealism imposed limits on the animation, which MPC did its best to turn into advantages, dialing down movement, gesture, and lip sync.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
Each area feels richly distinct from the others, harnessing abstract dreamlike designs rather than sheer photorealism, for the better.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
In the past, many critics dubbed photorealism gauche and consigned the movement to painting’s past.
—Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
At the same time, Jenkins wanted more expansive CG photorealism for the environments, covering the breadth and beauty of African landscapes.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
The game still looks great, too, with its uncanny blend of photorealism and interdimensional corruption.
—PCMAG, 20 June 2024
Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2025
Animation appears to be a popular way to get around the photorealism limitations.
—Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
However, the move to complete photorealism imposed limits on the animation, which MPC did its best to turn into advantages, dialing down movement, gesture, and lip sync.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
Each area feels richly distinct from the others, harnessing abstract dreamlike designs rather than sheer photorealism, for the better.
—Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
In the past, many critics dubbed photorealism gauche and consigned the movement to painting’s past.
—Carolina A. Miranda, ARTnews.com, 15 Jan. 2025
One of the things that really surprised me in getting away from that photorealism that we were locked into for such a long time, and getting into this painterly, more impressionistic look that extended from the backgrounds to the characters themselves, was the overall effect was more believable.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2025
At the same time, Jenkins wanted more expansive CG photorealism for the environments, covering the breadth and beauty of African landscapes.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 20 Dec. 2024
The game still looks great, too, with its uncanny blend of photorealism and interdimensional corruption.
—PCMAG, 20 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
Noun
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The collection of paintings have a sense of magical realism and depict androgynous figures such as Élan, Espoir, Charmeur, Chagrin, Résonance, Allusion, Protection, Possession, and Shadow.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The effect is that this drama of male interference never quite concludes—a bit of realism Kitamura renders through the surreal.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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And while a degree of naturalism does still make its way into many slow-burn scenes, Quy’s filmmaking largely favors expressionism.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
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Tucked within a narrow urban lot, the modest home has been lauded for its simplicity, free-flowing efficiency and organic naturalism.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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As characters shift rapidly between English and Spanish, director Joel Alfonso Vargas crafts a debut of great verisimilitude, humor, and empathy.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2025
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Yet its evasion of the substance of contemporary American polarization—an increasingly common approach in a Hollywood desperate for hits that will play in red states, blue states, and internationally—undermines that verisimilitude.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
20 Feb. 2025
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