Artist Alonsa Guevara paints incredibly realistic fruit paintings. She calls them "fruit portraits" and says they represent "desire, fecundity, and fertility." Some of the fruits she paints are ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The following is a transcript of the video. This artist turns cartoon characters into creepily realistic figures. Adam Dougherty is the artist behind them.

However, Baake and colleagues were surprised: in their experiments, the realistic avatars were rated more positively than the cartoon-style ones. In particular, the questionnaires given to ...