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[BlueXImpulse]

What are the best examples of character modelling you have seen in real-time? It can be in cutscenes or actual gameplay. The only requirement is that it has to be from an actual game.

Here is my nomination. Each hair strand is individually rendered so no hair clumps, realistic skin rendering, realistic eye modelling and the light illuminates his face in a realistic manner. It's life like.

 

[Bogey]

I"m gonna have to go next gen here.

 

[RoadHazard]

Probably most of the main characters from TLoU2. They look ridiculously good much of the time.

 

[Holdfing]

Say what you will about TLoU2, but the character models, materials, animations (at least in cinematics) are top notch.
Also Senua from Hellblade.

 

[Husky]

I think Quantum Break had some pretty seamless cuts from realtime to pre-rendered footage, so I can't be certain which these are from, but goddamn do they look nice. I found it mindblowing to watch.

 

[GymWolf]

Detroit and tlou2 but a lot of games have incredible models nowadays, even yakuza with the drqgon engine is almost life like with some character.

Imagine the same team with ND money...

New peter parker looks like a lil bitch.

 

[BlueXImpulse]

I think Quantum Break had some pretty seamless cuts from realtime to pre-rendered footage, so I can't be certain which these are from, but goddamn do they look nice. I found it mindblowing to watch.

Top one could be real time. The bottom one surely has to be prerendered. If it isn't then that's amazing.

 

[timmyp53]

I think Quantum Break had some pretty seamless cuts from realtime to pre-rendered footage, so I can't be certain which these are from, but goddamn do they look nice. I found it mindblowing to watch.

This looks freaking dope man. Side note. Watching The Boys on Amazon and I really like his character

 

[Knitted Knight]

What are the best examples of character modelling you have seen in real-time? It can be in cutscenes or actual gameplay. The only requirement is that it has to be from an actual game.

Here is my nomination. Each hair strand is individually rendered so no hair clumps, realistic skin rendering, realistic eye modelling and the light illuminates his face in a realistic manner. It's life like.

Did you add Raytracing to your avy?

 

[Husky]

Top one could be real time. The bottom one surely has to be prerendered. If it isn't then that's amazing.

The second one's my own screenshot, and to be honest, the fuzziness from the upscaling (due to my inability to run the game on high settings) really creates the appearance that, behind the visual flaws, you're peering at an obscured reality. The pre-rendered cutscenes, as far as I remember, were just recordings of in-engine footage, so I don't think the models actually looked any better than in the realtime footage.

Though I hate the effect, I also think chromatic aberration can create the appearance that, if only you could remove the glaring flaws, you'd be looking straight at a true-to-life rendering.

 

[Orta]

Lara Croft looked seriously impressive in the S/ROTTR cut scenes running at max settings on a pc. Hard to tell if they were real time or pre-rendered.

 

[BlueXImpulse]

Lara Croft looked seriously impressive in the S/ROTTR cut scenes running at max settings on a pc. Hard to tell if they were real time or pre-rendered.

Do you have screens?

 

[Achille0s]

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Is that rendered in game or just a movie?

 

[Husky]

This looks freaking dope man. Side note. Watching The Boys on Amazon and I really like his character

Whenever I see Shawn Ashmore in a movie with my friend, I like to declare "it's Quantum Break himself!"
Did you know he has a mostly-identical twin brother? They both played separate characters in Smallville.

 

[M1chl]

When I see the screen Quantum Break immediately came to mind.

 

[Husky]

Is that rendered in game or just a movie?

I think that one's a promotional shot, but here's two of my own screenshots of Senua. Rendered at my paltry resolution of 1600x900, since I haven't found a 1080p monitor that looks as vibrant at 0% brightness yet, and now my local Best Buy's gone so I can no longer demo monitors before buying .
Looking at that second shot, the film grain's another example of a visual flaw that helps create the illusion of reality behind the filtering.

 

[Orta]

Do you have screens?

I do. Dare I ask my boss to allow me to pop home to bring some pictures of Lara Croft back to work to show people on the internet though?

 

[Achille0s]

Is that rendered in game or just a movie?

It's not a real time rendred, i deleted the image

 

[SirTerry-T]

This topic needs "photogrammetry" and "traditional" sections, as most of these entrants are created from scan data..for the most part (heads, some clothing).
Naughty Dog don't tend to use scandata (or at least don't admit to it) so I'd give them the nod out of these lot.
Though, personally I can look at a character such as Kas from BOTW and be just as impressed with what the character artist(s) have created.

 

[GymWolf]

Do you have screens?

Most realistic wet ass in the business.
Poor chloe from uncharted hanged herself after seeing these gifs.

 

[Bankai]

Last of Us 2, without a doubt.

 

[AllyITA]

I think that one's a promotional shot, but here's two of my own screenshots of Senua. Rendered at my paltry resolution of 1600x900, since I haven't found a 1080p monitor that looks as vibrant at 0% brightness yet, and now my local Best Buy's gone so I can no longer demo monitors before buying .
Looking at that second shot, the film grain's another example of a visual flaw that helps create the illusion of reality behind the filtering.

seeing the intro of senua in VR is really impressive.

 

[nkarafo]

Not sure if it's the best looking but the character from Horizon Zero Down supposedly uses the highest amount of polygons. Just the hair uses the same amount as a full, current gen character.

 

[Mr. PlayStation]

What are the best examples of character modelling you have seen in real-time? It can be in cutscenes or actual gameplay. The only requirement is that it has to be from an actual game.

Here is my nomination. Each hair strand is individually rendered so no hair clumps, realistic skin rendering, realistic eye modelling and the light illuminates his face in a realistic manner. It's life like.

Some of the character models in Death Stranding are insane as well, even God of War 2018 Kratos, Ellie in TLOU Part II, Jin Sakai in Ghost of Tsushima to name a few

 

[TBiddy]

Quantum Break looks ridiculously good. edit: not the best screenshot, but you get the gist.

 

[RPS37]

The thing about Quantum Break too was they also had their little live action tv show that they played between levels.
Sometimes I couldn’t tell if it was live action or not when they started.

 

[Falc67]

I would have said this, but I've seen a new screenshot supposedly from the next gen version recently, and it looks significantly worse.

If this is indeed real time, then this wins. Again, I doubt the actual game will look like this.

 

[Self]

'Real Time' dudes...
Skyrim wins hands down.

 

[Mr. PlayStation]

Quantum Break looks ridiculously good. edit: not the best screenshot, but you get the gist.

This is such an underrated game and it came out just 4 years ago. Wish this was out on PS4 man, have missed out on this gem!

 

[supernova8]

Detroit and tlou2 but a lot of games have incredible models nowadays, even yakuza with the drqgon engine is almost life like with some character.

Imagine the same team with ND money...

New peter parker looks like a lil bitch.

Thing with Yakuza is that it's super inconsistent. Sure you have faces like that in the game but you also have:

this garbage that kills the immersion. Look at that guy on the left. Straight from Xbox 360 lol.

 

[Yoboman]

The models in the model viewer of TLOU2 are insane. Even better than the cutscene models I think

 

[martino]

screen from gaf on ps4 pro

 

[GymWolf]

Thing with Yakuza is that it's super inconsistent. Sure you have faces like that in the game but you also have:

this garbage that kills the immersion. Look at that guy on the left. Straight from Xbox 360 lol.

Dude all the main and secondary character are super detailed, the guys in the photo are not even tertiary character, they are just goons that you use in the minigame, also the image is pretty blurry, they look decent for a AA game.

Do you judge tlou2 models by the low quality unnamed npcs in the 2 big locations of the game??

This is how kiryu look from a close distance

The only game in existence that has high quality models for almost every npc in the game is horizon zero dawn.

 

[The Hamburglar]

 

[GymWolf]

I would have said this, but I've seen a new screenshot supposedly from the next gen version recently, and it looks significantly worse.

If this is indeed real time, then this wins. Again, I doubt the actual game will look like this.

The black guy just bought a switch before taking the pic.

 

[LOLCats]

yakuza characters are great

 

[ColonialRaptor]

I feel like this shot is one of the best we’ve seen so far.

 

[Tschumi]

No joke... Prophet and Co from Crysis 1.

 

[GymWolf]

I feel like this shot is one of the best we’ve seen so far.

It's good but it's not a step up compared to current gen games at all

 

[Red Rackham's Revenge]

Detroit and tlou2 but a lot of games have incredible models nowadays, even yakuza with the drqgon engine is almost life like with some character.

Imagine the same team with ND money...

New peter parker looks like a lil bitch.

I didn't know Takeshi was in video games

 

[GymWolf]

I didn't know Takeshi was in video games

And his character is ace.

 

[martino]

It's good but it's not a step up compared to current gen games at all

is that detroit ? if yes, i need to do this game (already in backlog)

 

[Guilhermegrg]

It's good but it's not a step up compared to current gen games at all

Detroit Become Human had quite a few moments where the real time was very life like, depending on animation and lighting conditions. Cannot wait to see what they can do with the new gen consoles.

 

[GymWolf]

is that detroit ? if yes, i need to do this game (already in backlog)

Yes it's detroit, and like you i still have to play the game but i usually despise quantic dreams writing...

 

[T8SC]

Ok maybe not impressive now but this was amazing back in '96 (No pre-rendered backgrounds either like RE1). These days it's all just small incremental changes and hard to really notice when playing the game if its actually better than other games that are out.

 

[and 3 others]

Say what you will about TLoU2, but the character models, materials, animations (at least in cinematics) are top notch.

This definitely doesn't apply to people's clothes in the game!

 

[INC]

screen from gaf on ps4 pro

Her teeth make her look goofy, like sponge bob

 

[RoboFu]

death stranding or hell blade.

 

[GymWolf]

You gotta love those pointy tits on lara