Comments on: Bungie Defends Graphics In Halo 3 – Photo Realism Overrated? http://www.ripten.com/2007/09/26/bungie-defends-graphics-in-halo-3-photo-realism-overrated/ Real Independent Press To Every Nerd Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: serulin http://www.ripten.com/2007/09/26/bungie-defends-graphics-in-halo-3-photo-realism-overrated/comment-page-1/#comment-387005 serulin Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:19:05 +0000 http://www.ripten.com/2007/09/26/bungie-defends-graphics-in-halo-3-photo-realism-overrated/#comment-387005 "I once had a professor in art school who believed that it was every artists responsibility to add something unique to their work that made it stand out. He stated that if you wanted something to look just as it does in reality then why bother creating it by hand, simply take a picture."<br><br>Because "photorealism" cannot do what these graphics are designed to do. (give us control of chars, aim with mouse, etc) Many things of this so called realistic looking game are "unrealistic" so to create something like that physically and take a picture of it would be even more troublesome when you can do it pretty well with CGI. Even with real live video, you cannot actively manipulate it to the degree you can with a game. “I once had a professor in art school who believed that it was every artists responsibility to add something unique to their work that made it stand out. He stated that if you wanted something to look just as it does in reality then why bother creating it by hand, simply take a picture.”

Because “photorealism” cannot do what these graphics are designed to do. (give us control of chars, aim with mouse, etc) Many things of this so called realistic looking game are “unrealistic” so to create something like that physically and take a picture of it would be even more troublesome when you can do it pretty well with CGI. Even with real live video, you cannot actively manipulate it to the degree you can with a game.

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