The strange power of CGI explored in a strangely powerful CGI video

That’s fascinating. I always get to thinking about what it is about CGI that makes it look so… fake. In this case, there are obvious clues, such as the parquet floor with exactly the same grain patterns in every fourth square. But there’s something else… I think it’s that we can subconsciously detect the imperfections of a real object - the difference between an algorithmically straight line and a straight line produced on a saw in real wood which has aged many decades and warped to the slightest degree.

tl;dr it’s too perfect.

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