I have told the marketing manager that there is no more need for photo
shoots, we can get graphic designers to "mock up" real looking images
for us... now i want to show examples :-)

Can anyone please point me to images that have been purely made on the
computer (not necessarily ray traced etc... it might have been a
designer doing each pixel if that's what it takes).

I want to then print out some of these "realistic looking but not real
at all" images and put them up with some real photographs and see if
the marketing manager can pick which ones are actual photos.

I don't think we'll quite change our photo shoots - but it will go
some way into enlightning us into the capabilities of technology...

Would appreciate if someone can point me to some such images
(realistic looking but not real) and possibly some cases of people
have experimented with a similar concept. The "photos" shold include
humans ... ones that include humans that seem to express some emotion
on their face would be excellent.

Hi simrangambhir,

You'll enjoy the first two links if you haven't seen them already,
it's just what you have in mind (except unfortunately, no people). A
little challenge of 10 images (x2) - are they real or computer
generated?

Fake or Foto Version I
http://www.autodesk.com/eng/etc/fakeorfoto/v1/index.html

Fake or Foto Version II
http://www.autodesk.com/eng/etc/fakeorfoto/index.html

The following are particularly well done I think. 

1) Pottery (I know you asked for people, but this one is good)
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/realistic/samovar.gif
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/realistic/

2) Black & white young woman
Viewers may find it hard to tell that this realistic image was computer-generated."
http://www.jhu.edu/~newslett/03-8-01/Science/2.html

3) Scared face
http://schestowitz.com/IMG/blog/scare.jpg
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/12/13/

4) Female face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/w_model_a.jpg

5) Female face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/w_model_b.jpg

6) Female face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/kindfrau_d_100.jpg

7) Male face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/m_model_a.jpg

8) Male face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/m_model_b.jpg

9) Male face
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/m_model_c.jpg

Gallery view of faces:
http://www.uni-regensburg.de/Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_II/Psychologie/Psy_II/beautycheck/english/virtuelle/virtuelle.htm

10) Time Magazine cover
http://www.racialcompact.com/Time_Fall_1993.JPG
http://www.racialcompact.com/nordishcrisis.html

12) Black & white face
http://www.tvacres.com/images/computers_andromeda_face.jpg
http://www.tvacres.com/computers_beings_andromeda.htm

13) Black & white face
http://www.wiu.edu/users/sm100/pixelation/facetutorial/idealface-orig.gif
http://www.wiu.edu/users/sm100/pixelation/facetutorial/index.html

The following are less realistic. Faces, especially with expressions,
are the most difficult to do.

14) http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40113000/jpg/_40113813_virtual_face203.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3683853.stm

15) Computer Generated People
http://www.thelensflare.com/cgpeople.php

15) There seems to be a question of whether it is truly computer generated.
http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/alceu_baptistao1.jpg
http://www.raph.com/3dartists/artgallery/ag-ap.php?aid=348

16) http://www.trussel.com/prehist/child.jpg
http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news267.htm

17) http://www.visagetechnologies.com/images/kevin_head_r.jpg
http://www.visagetechnologies.com/company.html

18) http://www.mxac.com.au/MIF/ScreenFaceCloseup.jpg
http://www.mxac.com.au/MIF/screenshots.htm

19) http://www.brunel.ac.uk/3518/CCNI_images/justin_obrien_image02.gif
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sssl/ssslresearch/centres/ccni/

20) http://www.ozgurustundag.com/gallery/3D/images/MissD_Face.jpg
http://www.ozgurustundag.com/gallery/3D/html/missD.htm

21) Not sure about these
http://michael.casavant.us/Chill/04/PCs.htm

Six more Realistic Images from Cornell, no people.
Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics 
http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/online/realistic/

Ok, so I would say that in summary, computer generated faces is still
in the early stages. Morphing may be a more viable option for you, it
uses photos to generate new faces. Look here:

Morphases
http://www.morphases.com/editor/

Morphed faces
http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/002264.html

The Perception of Facial Expressions
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~andyc/perception.php

Morphing Software Reviews 2006
Gold 	 FantaMorph
Silver   MorphBuster
Bronzxe  Morpheus
#4 	 Morph Man 2000
#5 	 Magic Morph
#6 	 Easy Morph
#7 	 WinMorph
#8 	 Gryphon Morph
#9 	 Morpher
#10 	 VideoCraft
#11 	 Morphology 101
#12 	 Morph Studio
#13 	 Photomorph 2
http://morphing-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

I hope you find my research more than satisfactory but if there's
anything else I can provide you with, please let me know by posting a
clarification request and wait for me to respond before closing/rating
my answer.

Thank you,
hummer

Google and Google Image Search Terms Used:
realistic computer generated face images faux photos real fake
graphics people cg cgi morphed faces morphing software

Hi hummer, 

thankyou for the excellent extensive answer :-) 

simran.