Amid the intricate interplay of creativity and technology that defines modern 3D modeling, Fiona Ng emerges as a rare talent. Known for her ability to craft hyper-realistic characters and creatures, ...

Welcome to the future. The skin rendering technology you see in these videos may soon become commonplace in videogames. Graphics artist Jorge Jimenez released an impressive real-time skin rendering ...

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Graphics researcher Jorge Jimenez has cracked the problem of rendering what he calls "ultra realistic skin" in real-time with consumer-level computer and graphics hardware. It's a breakthrough made ...

The surface of rendered objects in computer games often looks unrealistic. A new method creates much more realistic images, imitating the complex scattering processes under the surface. The surface of ...

Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and UC Berkeley devised a way to make animals in movies and video games more realistic by improving the look of computer-generated fur.

This news release is available in German. Overturning cars, flying missiles, and airplanes speeding across the screen -- on modern computers, 3D objects can be calculated in a flash. However, many ...