Too perfect is correct in this video.
Pick up an object in front of you. My example will be a bottle of ibuprofen I have in front of me.
I just bought it today. It’s brand new, so it should be an example of perfection, as close as you can get to this video.
The label sticker is peeling in one corner. There’s also an irregular crease in the label where it didn’t get stuck to the bottle perfectly. The cap has a slight amount of flash from the moulding seams. The expiration date printed on is is a little askew. If you look at the plastic closely, you can see tiny scratches. There are fingerprints from where I grabbed it.
Even though the finish is supposed to be glossy, there are tiny imperfections in the specular reflections.
And that’s something that is brand new in the real world.
If you want an example of CGI that looks pretty realistic, try Battlestar Galactica. Look at the Galactica herself. The metal’s dull, from being in space for decades. There’s blast marks from her many battles. You can see the seams between the mosaic of armor plates on her hull, and each armor plate has a slightly different color from her neighbor. Where there are gun ports, or engine exhausts, you see blackened marks. The paint on her name, and on the Colonial crest emblem is faded. And as the show goes on, she gets more beat up, you see more craters in her hull, more scorch marks, until the fourth season, when she’s nearly black.
