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Recent Examples of photo-realism
Rather than aiming for photorealism, everything in Minecraft, from the ground to the trees to the animals to the sun and moon themselves, is represented by large, chunky blocks.
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Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The designers have managed to capture the predecessor's style, opting for a hyper-real aesthetic rather than going for straight photo-realism.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The designers have managed to capture the predecessor's style, opting for a hyper-real aesthetic rather than going for straight photo-realism.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
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Because what matters, what makes Caravaggio so much more than an illustrator, is less the realism of the sacred image than its translation — through the bodies and faces of ordinary people — from the time of the Gospels to now.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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As the Scientific Revolution spread across Europe, artists became increasingly devoted to realism in still life paintings of plants and flowers.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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But the naturalism had a function that went beyond popular accessibility.—
Jason Farago,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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On the one side stood religious fundamentalism with its insistence on a literal reading of scripture and submission to institutional authority; on the other stood scientific naturalism with its insistence that only empirical methods were valid routes to knowledge.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
29 Jan. 2025
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In those cases, the technology’s failure to produce flawless verisimilitude was part of the charm.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2025
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Michelle's and Dorothy's journey of self-discovery do share a remarkable verisimilitude if studied at a relative distance.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Photo-realism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo-realism. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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