Our results indicate that depicting virtual animal-like characters at realism levels used in current video games causes negative reactions just as the uncanny valley predicts for humanlike characters.
The natural appearance (colors, textures) and various texture effects are used to drive the control the photo-realism level of the visualization: color and texture interpolation blocks have been developed.
Forty men were requested to choose the most attractive silhouette consecutively from six series (2 levels of realism × 3 levels of body mass), each consisting of 26 female images that varied in WHR (from.60 to.85 by.01).01
But Manchester by the Sea takes cinematic realism to a level that I would've never imagined possible — and it's mesmerizing.
It's a level of realism, the everyday realism of everyday life, that rarely reaches the screen.
The supporting performances of Susan Sarandon and Barry Pepper further help sustain a ground-level realism.
Chris Weitz, the director of "New Moon" and "About a Boy," delivers a bracing dose of street-level realism in "A Better Life," new to DVD on October 18th.
And the performances of Ms. Sarandon and Barry Pepper, as her right-hand man, help sustain a ground-level realism that finally prevents "Snitch" from lurching off the highway.
It could easily have become either prurient or moralistic, but Mr. Goldman's stance is that of a sympathetic observer, and his style combines ground-level realism with a touch of Almodóvarian extravagance.
In the Columbia box both Richard Quine's "Pushover" (1954) and Jacques Tourneur's "Nightfall" (1957) seem suspended between Expressionist stylization and street-level realism, while Richard Fleischer's taut, linear "Armored Car Robbery" (1950), in the Warner Brothers box, is already committed to a semi-documentary style, equally influenced by American newsreels and Italian neo-realism.
