I realized something ironic today: In my field I’m known largely for developing techniques that make it easier to create computer graphic images that look realistic. Yet I never set out to make computer graphic images look realistic, and in fact that’s not something I particularly value.<\/p>\n
What I want is to help make computer graphic images look beautiful and compelling. It just happens that realism is one way to do that — among many others.<\/p>\n
Yes, my techniques can be used to create things that look real. But they can also be used to create a lot of other kinds of visual results.<\/p>\n
I think what’s going on here is that the movie and games special effects industries (where the big money is) are really in love with realism — presumably because audiences are. So that’s how my techniques tend to be used, which means that’s what I’ve become known for.<\/p>\n
Personally, I’ll take the look of Fantasia<\/i> over the look of a Transformers<\/i> movie any day. But to be fair, I’m not in the business of making movies that are supposed to earn millions of dollars for their creators, so I can have the luxury of an iconoclastic opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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