Heavy Rain seems to be one of the first photorealistic games under development for the PlayStation 3 console.
The game is a work-in-process by developer Quantic Dream, who showed a trailer of it at the Sony booth at E3 06 recently.
Quantic states that the game shows real-time 3D tears, animation of eyes, pupils, fingers and tongue as well as advanced rendering.
While the attached image doesn’t look too bad, QD cherry-picked it from their demo, the rest of which, while more than ok, is not great. Arguably, QD’s techniques are unkindest to hair and teeth, and their rendered skin could be somewhat better – indeed, the whole effect is somewhat surreal, and enough to wig-out some reviewers.
A virtual Tom Hanks or Will Smith remains elusive.
Quantic Dream – homepage
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If the eyes and the tongue are photorealistic, it really makes the character look almost eerily lifelike.
Yeah, that image isn’t quite photorealistic; you could easily distinguish it from a human. But we’re much closer to photorealism at this point than I would’ve imagined ten years ago.