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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 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
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
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 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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for photo-realism
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The drama, also starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, was a monument to dramatic realism, so serious in its attempt to capture the truth that the production took bags of trash from the real-life Post offices and used the papers on the set.—
Stephen Galloway,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Redford's turn in All the President's Men (1976) as journalist Bob Woodward brought the Watergate scandal to the big screen with gripping realism.—
Hannah Parry
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
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Jo Brand squashes one of hers, David Baddiel tries to eat his, while Rose Matafeo and Ed Gamble rip theirs to shreds and Katy Wix overestimates the naturalism of holding a hard hat under one arm for an extended period of time.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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Needless to say, Zhao’s signature naturalism serves Agnes well.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
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Both his African heritage and his new exploration of the verisimilitudes and vagaries of New York City life paint the ongoing development of The Watchman, sometimes featured as the key figure as in the monumental portrait, AH!—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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For Greengrass, this is a technique to generate even greater verisimilitude.—
Andy Hazel,
IndieWire,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Photo-realism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/photo-realism. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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