I cannot even fathom the games we will be playing when I am an old man.. This gives me such vast hope for the future of gaming in general. I fear Death a big part in due to the fact that I wont see its pinnacle, a hundred or so years from now.

In 2040 Mom: “are u playing outside Jim” Jim: *sends screenshot of this* Mom: “good boy”

As long as nothing moves, it's realistic. Photo-realistic, not video-realistic.

the house and leaves got me good,

Playing at 1 FPS 😫🙌🏻

I saw this while waiting for my blender render to finish

I mean until we can move the camera at a speed that isn’t always constant, I think you’ll always be able to tell even when graphics break the uncanny valley, camera movement is just so robotic

Now slap an awesome story and great gameplay into that baby and you’ve got game of the century.

When I saw the Snes controller I had tears in my eyes, all the good memories came rushing back 😭

To be honest, I think what gives away the CGI every time is the camera work - the rendering itself looks fine, but if you have silky smooth camera panning from impossible angles then that is always going to look unrealistic. The future of realism is not the modelling, it's the camera work.

In this special video, we are going to watch some great TRUE photorealistic graphics. Most of them are made by an open source program named Blender. Can you spot the difference? Music used: www.beatsuite.com and Beyond Skyrim Bruma OST I did not made these demos myself! All the credits for the demos go to the authors! For the Blender demos, credits go to the original authors! UE4 end outdoor scenes: Art by Rens kzfaq.info/love/-L_eKfVOZ4UlOCqLVJtOkwvideos

Neo “What is the matrix?” Morpheus “Unreal”

I just realized movies could use this for almost every clip.

The Wii pictures made me a believer

i think the Unreal engine 5 should be called "Real Engine" when it comes out...

That dubstep was cancer

The Cut was incredible good. The calm and long black transitions maked it nice

This makes my heart race My mind is completely blown

As much as I appreciate more beautiful graphic in the future, I hope to experience more beautiful stories to match in the gaming world. I believe most importance of a great video is the story that comes with it.

You have no idea how badly I want to know how to make stuff like this...fucking amazing, and the fact that it is made using open source software makes it even more amazing. Gotta keep trying to learn Blender!

Totally off-topic and totally irrelevant, but is it just me or that C piano note at 2:01 is slightly sharp?

We probably live in a simulation.

I can't wait until we'll have photorealistic games, it will be so dope !

Why does it sound like despacito is playing in the background

This is real

That is truly amazing

My computer would explode if i try to render that. Nice work man.

4 years ago?!?! I can't wait to see what it is like today!

in the first shoot 0:59 is truly awsome i have no complains; at 1:08 the dry grass sticks in the closest proximities of the tree shoud look a bit more dark since the light must not be that strong as a flash light pointing to the floor, we expect a soft atmospheric lightning unlike what is in the scene ; in 1:20 i was expecting a lower reflection in the angular big rock in the middle-right part of the video, is a very good shoot btw; the 2:00 almost perfect, except for maybe they overused micro peeks over the whole surface and the real sea is not that much super close spikies, is a very calm sea not boiling water or a cloudy storm; the 2:22 house is majestic but the dark big thin grass near the camera and the periphery of the river have an odd flat dark color which given the magnitude of the light has no sense and looks fake, and in the very end 2:28 the chunk of the tree near camera in the left have a constant brown-red color that is not even close to the reality, same as 2:47 i think the textures are wrong positioned the arm of the tree is curved but so subtile and have a constant thickness, that does not happen in real trees, its shape is soo smooth unlike what the texture tell us about the tree, but is so convincing in the whole scene considering the duration; at 3:08 the Nintendo controller have a beautiful appearance, not a single inconsistency! same perfect match at 3:05 , 3:17 , 3:24 ; 3:27 !! the non biological materials look amazing; looking 3:37 , have room to improve, in the sence all trees are clones, same species of tree, at same age with same/similar shape, it is a ultra redundant scene where u basically can spot spheres of fuzzy green on an island... a very bad work, but changing to many species of trees, and the factor of light reflected in each tree, and tones given different parts of every tree, it will definitely improve, now, it says is an island but given the color of the water, its waves and composition, tells the audience it is a river, not an estuary not the sea, so is not an island ; in a blink of an eye you can tell is a very very fake scene at 4:35, the car have by no means any touch of realism on its materials (look plastic) its speed (constant speed even when turning! wtf) and its momentum at the end in the last turn is gone, is like a helium balloon, have no mass, you cant feel the weight of it, there are many physics simulators if you don't know how to animate a car.. an amateur work, i will not mention about the street rendering wich is a pain; 5:07 .... well, they just took the "island" and change the little green spheres and make them white, but all what i talk up about the trees, is valid here, a horrible scene and a poor work, even on the snow in the parts where there are no "trees", is totally a fail, is a pain to see an insult to categorize as "photo realistic" those look like fungus, the authors think a tree in that high slope will have that form? that angle? to not mention the abuse of clones there; 6:40 the sky and the sea are two different things, they are not related at all in this lightining setting, now in 7:15, divide the screen in 4 rectangles from left to right with vertical lines only, look at the 3rd rectangle (from left to right) its right side, in the center is a blocky cubic rock, that is not convenient, its corners and edges are white, and dry, dusty ,but inside, down, is dark as a wet mud chunk, a very bad choice, for the rest, the shoot is totally realistic; 7:19 and 7:32 repeated renders; repeated 7:38 and again, look that sharp rock, its reflection, what it tells? it was wattered a few seconds ago is super wet but the weather tells is so cold not a water drop could be liquid... it makes a lot of sense; 7:57 look down, left now go up slowly, until u reach the first green leaf, is overexposed, like it where reflecting light as a metal like a sword, other option is that the material is wet and the water reflects that huge amount of light to make a overtone, overexpose color, but the scene is in a dry forest, umm very consistent should i say... ; the next scenes until 8:12 look majestic, but in 8:12 the color of the leafs.. that green-yellow color... i saw outside and find many Ferns with that ultra bright radioactive color, yes, is super common i know; 8:17 that IS photorealistic scene!, no sarcasm here, it looks nice, really; 8:20 same burned radioactive green pleasant to sight but absolute fantasy and cartoonish, the next scene for the rock that not matches the scene (the author can go to a forest put a rock in the ground, see how it looks in a twilight, take a pic, and with that pic work in the colors) the next scenes have the famous radioactive green in ferns i never saw with naked eyes in a forest, all the scenes are easy to spot are super duper push, forced, fixed up, that will not be even have a diferential fragment of photo-looking because they don't respect the physical phenomena involved in nature, growth, optics, and wetness and dryness, and much much more, the software is ready, but need a very professional people that know about all to not make a mess as this renders.. i loved the video, hope someone that have a bit of knowledge use blender in the correct way to make a good approximation of the scene he wanna do in photorealistic style.

Yet people still don't look even remotely real.

cant wait for a photo realistic video game

I hope to see those kind of graphics in a video game one day wow!

It's amazing!

Those graphics were UNREAL, eh? Don't worry, I can see myself out...

Trees and bushes from distance looks so polished and similar to each other both in shape and color. It needs to be varies in a wider scale then it will look much more realistic.

The blurry background HDRI gives away the nice house scenery

9:48 fun fact, photorealistic rocks like these are often made by taking many photos of a real rock from different angles, then putting them all into a program which turns them into a 3D mesh of the rock which you then have to texture. Realistic rocks like these can sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars (often in a pack).

unreal real...

The house one, amazing

2:44 I love how the sky is overexposed to make it look more realistic

the ocean waves at the start almost look real but their movements are just a little too perfect and personally I think they need a couple more imperfections to make it look more real.

really starting to look like "The Matrix" might be a real thing in the future

The house scene is really something.

1000& real fantastic.

Photo-realism is acheived through a set of things, that must work together. Ofcourse you've got to have good textures, and enough detailed models aswell. Illumination and post-processing are importat too clearily. But. There's a subtle thing that must glue everything: a thing that I call "coherent randomity". There's got to be some randomity, but not too forced. Everything must be different, not each leaf is the same, not each grass blade is the exact copy of another, each pebble is unlike the one sitting nearby.

Incredible. Once they crack the animations of people then that'll be an even bigger step forward.

I can still see a difference lol Edit; I spoke too soon. My eyes couldn’t even imagine what was happening 😂

Nothing about the first two showcases looks remotely “photorealistic”. That being said this does look nice. Looking forward to seeing more of these effects in games.

Speechless...

How do they create like the forest do they place small rock separately?

To me the house scene is a perfect example of how important animation is. The lighting is perfect. The modeling is perfect and the reflections are perfect. But since everything is perfectly still, it feels off. Obviously this is just a demo for the lighting systems, but I personally really want to see a good leaf and grass animation system introduced into the scene just to see how far you can push the photorealism.

Well, at least my kids get to play with these great graphics in the future

The unreal engine ones look like a movie. its so cool

The fact that we can nowadays create a nearly identical view of reality and light travelling physics, indicates us that we will eventually be able to clone reality in a way we won't be able to distinguish

Human faces were good enough for interaction but the hand movements look laboured. The ocean bit was amazing, enough said. All the plant based stuff had a realistic look but a CGI feel. The rocks & stone were brilliant but obviously far easier as they're inanimate. Good vid. Enjoyed it.

anyone else wanna see susan in the middle of these scenes or the cube just contrasting the fact that it isnt real even though it really looks like it is

Blender ftw!! Take that, Autodesk Maya!

Came for the graphics, stayed for the music.

It's gonna be amazing when we see video games and worlds that truly look like they could be our reality.

Me: Goes outside Me: damn what graphics card am I running

The last ocean one is a so close to perfect. The movement of the water is a bit too fast and repetitive though (it's just mounds and pits that invert over time). I've noticed that waves always have a direction they're travelling in and if they're met with other waves, they eventually slow down and fade away. The water looks fantastic but the sky has too much dynamic range of aiming for photorealism (although you could say it was shot on a phone with HDR I guess)

Can't wait the time to see these scenes in real games °-°!

The scariest thing about this video? It gives actual weight to the possibility we are living in a simulation xD

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

The background music you used, feels very Skyrim-ish, but I never heard it...maybe it’s something beyond Skyrim.

Quixel-scans are amazing in use with UE4.

theese guys are masters

My brain melted when I saw the river's raytracing

Beautiful Graphics I'm ready to purchase the demo to learn how to start blending these photos and Graphics together. I would love to use it for architecture and print reading as well as some medical Concepts maybe snap some photos of actual cadavers this is working so many different ways CSI, possibly. What is the name of the music playing near the end when they are in the wooden area.

We are on the verge of creating a simulation within this simulation.

Pretty soon you can make a full-length feature film without any cameras or actors. All you need is the software and high-end hardware.

Imagine in the future when full dive VR really invented, and then combined with these kind of graphic. They perhaps can't distinguish between real world and Virtual world anymore.

This is how The Witcher IV will look like on Ultra Settings... I'm going to need a new computer! :O

With photorealistic graphics, everything looks too perfect,

All the people criticising this work have zero understanding of just how impressive this is. If some of this was in a movie, it will be impossible to notice that it's graphics.

Do UE4 scenes really count, as they are photo scanned and the lighting is baked specifically for the view angle?

I swear 10 years from now, video games will have graphics like this and it will look so realistic that you wont be able to tell the difference from that and real life

Just got an ad for Godzilla, and at first was like "GOD DAMN"

Amazing, 👏😨 We have come so far. We can make much more

For this rendering, what computer spec and graphic card ? thank you!

So pretty soon, graphics in video games won't be the issue anymore. What's EA going to do if they actually have to create a compelling story again? xD

I could tell most of the images were games or rendered, not because the graphics aren't up-to-par, but because I look at things like the sky and the background, as well as catch the movement of foliage in the wind normally. The illusion was easily broken in all of the images with foliage and clouds because the clouds weren't moving and neither was the foliage. But good lord I can only imagine what insane levels of graphics will come when those issues are addressed...

Beyond skyrim good choice in music

Tell me what is that ost title at 2.30?the piano

Don't even want to think about the time it must have taken to render even one of these.

For outdoor scenes, the one thing that gives it away is in my opinion, the fact that it looks too "clean". Also notice that on any scenes with soils, we can't spot any insects like ants, etc. which looks completely unnatural.

Jaw dropping

looks nice but the sea only waves one way not swinging backwards and forwards on a loop

What is the piano song part called? It gave me chills!

last one just wow

you can usually tell if its fake if IT'S PERFECTLY BEAUTIFUL AND HAS IMPECCABLE COMPOSITION

anyone here knowledgeable enough to give me an idea of what kind of workstation computer did they used to render or produce these kind of CGI scenes? is the AMD threadreapper 32 core cup and a Nvidia RTX Quadro 6000 24gb or Nvidia RTX Quadro 8000 48gb be enough for this kind of intense workflow in these 3D applications? especially the 2 scenes where it showcase the mountains at 6:00 and the ocean simulation scene. i've always wanted to do this kind of work but it always seem like the tech for this job is too intense for our regular consumer computer we use daily so anyone actually done it knows? thanks.

I can’t wait for all the horror games....😁

Fairly certain I broke my jaw while watching this

Whats the piano music called?

Even if I 'could' tell the difference, I am still awestruck.

What did they shoot this with? A stiff Xbone controller?

Fuck I can only imagine in the future when we can simulate hyper realistic simulations, we’ll be able to do some hunger games shit but with bots, but the bots we generate will be implemented with “years” worth of memories and admirations to make the simulation more intense for the viewers

Imagine if every video-game will just look like this in 10-20 years with realistic water/blood/whatever-fluid system, full destruction in real-time, almost perfect A.I and dynamic animation-scenarios.: i will just jizz and play. i hope we all can experience it before we die.

Love it