Or even: (I can't find the image; it's cel-shaded pic, with a guy in a car and another guy right outside his door. i believe it's from GTA IV)
Do you think we'll be getting game art as sexy as odin sphere but more fluid?
edit: found the GTA pic
[Edited by - Alpha_ProgDes on July 25, 2007 3:47:11 PM]
Quote:Original post by jpetrie
Non-photorealistic rendering is a very interesting field. A lot of it is actually more achievable than you'd think; the problem is that it doesn't always actually look nice. Some times this is because the NPR technique is not mature enough yet (or the hardware can't do it well enough), but sometimes its just because what looks good as a still doesn't always look good in motion.
It's easily just as difficult as traditional photorealistic rendering, although the nature of the difficulty is different. A lot of fun to work with, though.
Quote:Original post by SteadtlerQuote:Original post by jpetrie
Non-photorealistic rendering is a very interesting field. A lot of it is actually more achievable than you'd think; the problem is that it doesn't always actually look nice. Some times this is because the NPR technique is not mature enough yet (or the hardware can't do it well enough), but sometimes its just because what looks good as a still doesn't always look good in motion.
It's easily just as difficult as traditional photorealistic rendering, although the nature of the difficulty is different. A lot of fun to work with, though.
I agree, I read several terrific papers that would draw a scene has if it was drawn with paintbrushes strokes. Some of these techniques are rendering techniques, from 3D data, but most are image-based rendering.
IMO the next stage of game graphics is through real-time ray tracing. Im convinced it would be possible today with specialized hardware, and effects are so easier to do with it. Weve reached a point where each increase in rasterizing quality has become way too complex.
This is my favorite ray tracing render. The theme of the contest was "absence".
Quote:Original post by Moe
I think it will still be a while yet before we hit photorealism. I mean, look at how Half-Life 2 and Doom 3/Quake 4 handled things - they both took different approaches towards photorealism, and they both have a different look and feel, but are both more realistic looking. Given that each developer seems to be taking a slightly different approach to photorealism, I think we will see some more artistic representations of things. I mean, look at how the computer generated graphics were handled for Star Wars Episodes I - III. It did indeed look real, but still had an artistic flair to it.
