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Nonfunctional hyperrealism, yes; Photorealism, no.

One could argue that this hyperrealism is paramount for a third-person action game that presents a pictorial realm of visions and wonders, of fire-breathing humans and slithering giants.

Art critics have come up with various terms for work like DeAndrea’s, including hyperrealism, although DeAndrea notably has said he doesn’t consider himself an artist.

The play, which I saw with English surtitles at Krakow’s Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival last month, is a great example of the limits — and buttons — that theater pushes, through the devices of hyperrealism.

Although the documentary, Canada’s Oscar entry this year for international feature film, employs 3-DCG animation technique, the attention to the line work, shading and textures in both the human characters and the environments bring the animated segments stylistically closer to Daxiong’s comic book art than hyperrealism.