Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Fake or foto?

I've done this in the past and have gotten 100% correct; this time I only got 75% right (images have changed from years ago when I last took it). Autodesk's Fake or Foto site is a fun challenge.

Doing a lot of 3D rendering, I can usually tell when an image is using texture maps, and I can always see the faked shadows.  A few 3D animations - particularly commercials - have poor shadows.

This time around, in trying to judge whether these images were photos or renderings, they may not have manipulated actual photos, but they set the scenes up, such that they obscured the usual signs that would distinguish one from the other.

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