This document discusses different graphical styles used in video games including photorealistic, cel shaded, and exaggerated styles. It focuses on photorealism and cel shading, explaining that photorealism aims to make games look as realistic as possible by including details like scars, blood, and hair. Cel shading, on the other hand, makes 3D models look like hand drawn artwork to give games like Mario, Zelda, and Dragon Ball Z a stylized, non-realistic look. The document provides examples of games using each style and notes that while photorealism enhances realism, it requires more disk space.

1. Bartosz Tkaczyk
Haverstock School
Date Of Submission: Still to be decided

2. Introduction.
• My presentation will be about the different types of
graphical styles. The Graphical styles I will be talking
about are;
• Photorealistic
• Cell shaded
• Exaggerated
• Abstract

3. Colour Theory
• Colour theory is the Visual arts guidance for mixing
colours and the guide for visual effects.
• The colour theory also defines warm and cold
colours: for example Red, Orange, Yellow are
considered warm colours and Blue, White, Purple
are considered cold.
Cold Side
Warm Side

4. Colour Theory In Games.

5. Photorealism
• What is Photorealism? Photorealism in games is
exactly what the name tells us. Developers try to
make certain games look as real as possible. For
example photorealism is used in many games such
as;
• Call of Duty
• Battlefield
• Far cry
• Photorealism gives players a sense of real life while
playing the games. Especially in war games.

6. Photorealism in Games.
• One of the newest releases Call of duty: Ghosts uses
photorealism. Call of Duty used photorealism to
show scars, scratches, blood and dirt between
fingernails. This is useful as it gives us the impression
of how the scene at a war would be.
• Photorealism is also improving with the new graphic
capabilities on the Next Gen Consoles.

7. Photorealism in Games.
• Farcry is another example of photorealism which
shows players having scars, Hair on arms, Veins.
• A disadvantage of photorealism is that it takes up
more disk space. Some games comes with 2 discs
so that players can install the graphics and the
game content itself separately. Such as GTA V on
the XBOX360.

8. Cel Shading
• What is Cel Shading? Cel Shading is a form of visual
art in video games, commonly represented in
games such as Mario, Zelda, Dragon Ball Z. It is a
render on 3D models to make them look hand
drawn.
• On the picture there are 2 astronauts, the one on
the left is a 3D rendered space suit that looks plastic
and the one on the right looks like it had been
drawn by hand using plugins which make the
pictures look hand drawn.