After seeing the second pics I went back and had another look at the first. I really had to look hard before finding some tiny things in the face that allowed me to pick it as a render. But if I wasn’t looking for it, and looking hard I wouldn’t have even considered it was anything but a really nice professional shot, beautifully composed by a talented photographer.
…gettin’ spooky ain’t it? We’re at the point where photos can no longer be used as proof of anything, we can no longer believe our eyes.
But for CG, absolute photographic realism is the thing that had to be achieved. Not as an end, mind you, but as a beginning. It is only now that photorealism can be achieved in 3D, that we can go beyond it and see the birth of true fine art in this medium.
The medium, the artists, the ability of artists to communicate and share ideas, the ability of the Internet to facilitate this on a global level, and the evolution of the right tools - Z3 being the apex of these - has allowed the birth of a new movement in fine art. Digital art has been around for more than a decade, but has never been seen as a true medium for fine art as it had no real characteristics of its own.
Over the next few years we lucky few are going to witness and partake in a great fine art movement, the like of which has not been seen since the Impressionists. It is only a matter of whether we have got the ideas, the originality, and the inspiration. From where I’m standing it looks pretty darn good, and this ability for the least of us to communicate with the best in places like this could make it the worlds first truly global art movement.
Fantastic work 8! You’ve produced one of the defining images of this period in digital art…Congrats!
But anyways nice modeling!
Could you post a close up of it plz?
beautiful job.