---
title: "Huawei Talk: #2 Post-Photorealism — Stylized CGI and Practical Shooting"
date: 2026-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-06-14T00:00:00.000Z
tags:
  - speaking-engagements
url: https://www.baku89.com/post-photorealism
---

# Huawei Talk: #2 Post-Photorealism — Stylized CGI and Practical Shooting

![](https://wp.baku89.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026_07_huawei-talk-03.001.jpeg)

I gave a talk for in-house CG researchers and product designers at Huawei Japan.

Language: Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin and English)

> Computer graphics has long pursued photorealism, or physically correct light, as its grand challenge. That goal is now largely achieved and taken for granted in commercial production. So how is CGI actually being used in the industry today? This talk maps current commercial image-making along two directions: stylized CGI, which values what David O'Reilly calls “aesthetic coherence” over physical correctness, and a return to practical effects, where processes that could be completed digitally are deliberately taken back into physical space to be shot. Examples range from post-Spider-Verse Hollywood animation to Japan's commercial and indie animation scenes.

### Takeaways

1. Photorealism is now a **material**, not a goal.
2. Stylized CGI: **Coherence** over correctness.
3. **Practical Shooting**: The making is a part of the work.

### Keywords, Figures

- [David O'Reilly](/David_O'Reilly)

  - Aesthetic coherence（美的一貫性）

    > My central belief is that the key to aesthetics is **coherence**.\
    > In 3d we essentially create artificial models of worlds, I contend that what makes these worlds believable is simply how coherent they are; how all the elements tie together under a set of rules which govern them consistently.

    [Basic Animation Aesthetics](/Basic_Animation_Aesthetics) ([土居伸彰](/%E5%9C%9F%E5%B1%85%E4%BC%B8%E5%BD%B0)訳『アニメーション基礎美学』, 2012)

- Stylized CGI

  - _Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse_ (2018)
  - _Teenage Mutant Turtles: Mutant Mayhem_ (2023)
  - Julian Glander, _Boys Go to Jupiter_ (2024)
  - [Kanta Mochida](/kanta-mochida) & Ryohei Kamide, _URAHARA_ (WIP)
  - [densuke28](/densuke28), _Qiezi Mabo Forever (Fried Checken Mix) ft. Punpee_ (2017)
  - [Takashi Ohashi](/%E5%A4%A7%E6%A9%8B%E5%8F%B2), Meg and Patron -- Pari Pari Party (2014)

- 神風動画 / サンジゲン / [SIGNIF](/SIGNIF) / [sankaku](/sankaku)

- Practical shooting / 特撮・実写撮影

  - [Alan Warburton](/Alan_Warburton), _[Spectacle, Speculation, Spam](/Spectacle,_Speculation,_Spam)_ (2016)

    > The unnecessary labor put into this is the real spectacle, (...) it recoils from the difficulties of quantifying the value of digital labor, by relying somewhat artificially on **fetishized analog practice**.

  - Blinkink/Hornet, _John Lewis ”The Bear And The Hear”_ (2014)

  - Kazuyoshi Shinomiya, _The New Dawn_ (『花緑青が明ける日に』, 2026)\
    -[Multiplane camera](/_Multiplane_camera) by Sukimaki Animation

  - Junchukan Bonta, _[Dungeons & Television](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kpLhpQ173M)_ (2025)
    - [#indie\_anime](/)（インディーアニメ）

  - The Transmitted-Light Controversy（透過光論争）
    - [片塰満則](/%E7%89%87%E5%A1%B0%E6%BA%80%E5%89%87)

- [Artist-In-Residency in GASBON](/Artist-In-Residency_in_GASBON)

- [Tsuribu Tokyo](/%E9%87%A3%E9%83%A8%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC) (釣部東京, [Takafumi Matsunaga](/%E6%9D%BE%E6%B0%B8%E6%98%82%E5%8F%B2))

  - _Satoko Shibata / Bochi Bochi Galaxy_ (2023)
  - _Ikebukuro Parco “New Friends”_ (2026)

- [Olia Lialina – Turing Complete User](/turing-complete-user-translation)