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Recent Examples of photo-realism
Characters, though, came first, having to be modeled in cubic fashion and keyframe-animated with tactile photorealism.
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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 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
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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
Noun
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His use of realism inspired Italian neorealism and the Nouvelle Vague.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
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Though Mario Kart isn’t exactly a franchise known for realism, some YouTubers posited that Nintendo used generative AI to produce the image.—
Will McCurdy,
PC Magazine,
11 May 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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His career celebration comes full circle with a return to Pace, which unravels the verisimilitude of his persona and outlook on life, embracing the deep emotions behind his multi-faceted art.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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The film was partly inspired by Holofcener’s own life as the divorced mother of two teenagers, which lends it a particularly gut-wrenching kind of verisimilitude.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Photo-realism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo-realism. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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