hyperrealism
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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.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2024
For decades, Kim Tschang-Yeul painted water drops that sit somewhere between abstraction and hyperrealism.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Writer Clarisse Loughrey gave it four stars, praising the movie as a "technological marvel of unprecedented hyperrealism".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2019
And at times in “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” Lee’s pursuit of an intense, uncompromising hyperrealism winds up merely underscoring its own digital artifice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2016
It’s drawn in the cartoons’ appealing neo-Deco style instead of the stiff hyperrealism of most contemporary superheroics.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2015
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