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Recent Examples of photo-realism
It is designed to accommodate multiple aesthetics, including photorealism, anime, and stylized 3D. Users can maintain consistency across campaigns and format outputs for platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Characters, though, came first, having to be modeled in cubic fashion and keyframe-animated with tactile photorealism.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Apr. 2025
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.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 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
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
Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Characters, though, came first, having to be modeled in cubic fashion and keyframe-animated with tactile photorealism.
—Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 26 Apr. 2025
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.
—Issy Van Der Velde, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
Noun
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Few other American directors better understand the authority that restrained realism can bring to bear on life-or-death material, or the way that character reveals itself through action.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2025
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As both realism and fantasy, his work disappointed people because there was never, some said, quite enough life in it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Oct. 2025
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Despite that notable change, watching One Battle After Another is much like the experience of reading Pynchon, who lurches from high comedy to stomach-turning naturalism and punctuates plot-heavy sequences with little grace notes of character portraiture.—
Paul A. Thompson,
Pitchfork,
24 Sep. 2025
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His performance is a triumph of naturalism, as is that of Andrew May, who brings layered emotional textures to the couple’s best friend.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
21 Sep. 2025
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The Cenobites, clearly inspired by leather and BDSM culture, are reimagined here as terrifyingly fashionable beings who feel truly alien — an aesthetic praised for its verisimilitude to Clive Barker’s original vision.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 Oct. 2025
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To enhance the verisimilitude of his wraparound segment, Cheel augments the fictional story of alien-contact footage discovered at a yard sale with nonfiction asides about UFO culture.—
A.A. Dowd,
Vulture,
3 Oct. 2025
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