Alive Without Breath (Hyperrealistic Resin 3D Paintings of Sea Life) / Keng Lye
These aren’t photographs, these are crafty illusions and gorgeous, intricate work by an Asian artist. Using a similar technique devised by Riusuke Fukahori with Goldfish Salvation, Singapore-based artist Keng Lye has created these hyperrealistic three-dimensional paintings in resin, of aquatic animals, in the series, Alive Without Breath. Patience, discipline, a careful hand and a keen eye...
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Next Generation Life (Hyperrealistic Real-time Facial Rendering) / Activision R&D
This animated character is being rendered in real-time on current video card hardware, using standard bone animation. The rendering techniques, as well as the animation pipeline are being presented at GDC 2013, “Next Generation Character Rendering” on March 27. The original high resolution data was acquired from Light Stage Facial Scanning and Performance Capture by […]
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Hyperrealistic Illustrations / Diego Fazio
Diego Fazio is a 22-year-old self-taught artist from Italy. Here are some photorealistic, some might even say hyperrealistic, pencil portraits by the young artist employing the chiaroscuro technique. Seems as if Fazio has been doing his thing since 2010. Observing his work, he’s displayed a tremendous amount of progress in a couple of years; he’s went […]
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Hyperrealistic Self-Portraits / Eloy Morales
Eloy Morales is a 39 year old (His birthday was on December 28th, Happy Birthday, Eloy!) painter based in Madrid, Spain. He has been practicing his craft since 1995. Morales’ oils paintings are hyperrealistic facsimiles; the attention to detail in his work is uncanny. It ceases to be representation at this point, as the renderings […]
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Superslice 100: Best of 2012
Behold, our curated collection of what we found to be some of the best cultural bids of the past year. We opened our virtual doors on May 2011 — 2012 was our first full calendar year. We have grown since then, so the list has also expanded. The previous group of the Best 30 has […]
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Hyperrealistic Drawings / Dirk Dzimirsky
German artist Dirk Dzimirsky creates hyperrealistic pencil and charcoal drawings using photos for inspiration. Dzimirsky’s describes his process as representational, improvisational and lyrical, using marks like words and textured areas like paragraphs to express a narrative. –@teemunny
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Redhead Girl (Hyperrealistic Ballpoint Pen Rendering) / Samuel Silva
Ballpoint pens are as underestimated as they are a powerful medium. It’s not about what you use, it’s about how you use it. Based on an already striking portrait of model Love Ansimov by Russian photographer Kristina Tararina, art hobbyist Samuel Silva has reproduced the photograph in astonishing hyperrealistic/photorealistic fashion using only six (not including the standard […]
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Hyperrealism / Paul Cadden
Believe it or not, these photos are all drawn by pencil. Artist Paul Cadden‘s Hyperrealism is done with incredibly intense detail, from the wrinkles of a man’s face to the smoke of cigarette. –@s_iravani
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Goldfish Salvation / Riusuke Fukahori
Artist Riusuke Fukahori‘s London debut exhibition “Goldfish Salvation” transforms ICN gallery into the world of goldfish. When struggling with artistic vision, Fukahori’s pet goldfish became his inspiration and ever since his passion and lifelong theme. His unique style of painting uses acrylic on clear resin which is poured into containers, resulting in a three-dimensional...
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