Welcome to the future. The skin rendering technology you see in these videos may soon become commonplace in videogames. Graphics artist Jorge Jimenez released an impressive real-time skin rendering ...

The Department of Computer Engineering, Sejong University in Korea and ETH Zurich in Switzerland have recently introduced a novel and simple framework for rendering subsurface scattering on surfaces ...

In computer graphics, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) is used to model light reflectance properties at a surface, and is defined as the ratio of the radiance (incident light) ...

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Graphics researcher Jorge Jimenez has cracked the problem of rendering what he calls "ultra realistic skin" in real-time with consumer-level computer and graphics hardware. It's a breakthrough made ...

The next computer-generated animals in King Kong or The Lion King could look a lot more realistic thanks to a breakthrough by computer scientists. The researchers developed a method that dramatically ...

Epic announced a host of new features in their Unreal Engine 3 development platform today at this year's GDC, the biggest of which is support for DirectX 11 and its assorted tools. The problem is, for ...