Eli5 why cant we create video game graphics as good as cinematics? shouldnt the texturing be the same as making video games?
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Cinematics (in video games) and CGI (in movies) are pre-rendered. That means they can build out the scene and graphics before the movie is released.
The graphics you see in video games as you are playing them are rendered in realtime, so you can’t get as much detail.
As an example, the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within has 141,964 total frames. Each frame took roughly 90 minutes to render, compared to 0.015 seconds that a single frame from your favorite video game at 60 fps has to render.
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