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Recent Examples of photo-realism
It is designed to accommodate multiple aesthetics, including photorealism, anime, and stylized 3D. Users can maintain consistency across campaigns and format outputs for platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Characters, though, came first, having to be modeled in cubic fashion and keyframe-animated with tactile photorealism.
—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
Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Characters, though, came first, having to be modeled in cubic fashion and keyframe-animated with tactile photorealism.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
Noun
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Blending magical realism with the Chilean myth of the Invunche, the story gives shape to trauma and uprooted identity.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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The diagnosis echoes the dark realism of early critical race theorists.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Noun
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King of the Hill was no marvel of complicated animation — its designs were built to have a kind of everyman naturalism, and the characters move with little grace.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
7 July 2025
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That naturalism, in turn, helps viewers and listeners feel more comfortable—although the videos sometimes perch right at the edge of the uncanny valley.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
Noun
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But what is exceptional here is how Sandler and Apatow pull from their real lives to give the performance verisimilitude.—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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Like a film or a novel, architectural restoration manipulates time, reversing, stopping, and tricking it, all in pursuit of verisimilitude.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 July 2025
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“Photo-realism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo-realism. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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