Quote Originally Posted by trog100
its now possible to create entire cgi movies that have no actors and no cameras.. soon what took ronnoco "several hours out of two days" will be possible in a few minutes..
Including the recent commercial from The Gap starring Audrey Hepburn...

A digital image is just a bunch of pixels, each with a numerical value assigned to it (which is displayed as the corresponding color). Photoshop doesn't care how you made the digital image - camera, scanned pen and ink drawing, etc. So I guess it is theoretically possible to make something that's indistinguishable from a photograph, but not probable.

I have seen a small web version of Ronnocco's work and it is very well done, but I had thought it was a "styled" photograph. I don't mean any offense by this; just one person's opinion. At this point, we're dealing with subtleties which I'd guess are 99% of the work. This pretty much true with photography itself, too...