> So the point of looking "painterly" is that it looks like the art was done manually by a craftsman.
I don't know that there has to be a point to it in that sense.
In general, the goal isn't to generate static images that can be passed off as paintings.
It's a real-time 3D rendering technique, for one thing -- you can't paint this.
The term painterly refers to non-photorealistic computer graphics art styles that mimic some aspects of painterly paintings.
The point of doing this is to (try to) make a thing (a 3D scene, generally) look the way you want it to.
I don't know that there has to be a point to it in that sense. In general, the goal isn't to generate static images that can be passed off as paintings. It's a real-time 3D rendering technique, for one thing -- you can't paint this.
The term painterly refers to non-photorealistic computer graphics art styles that mimic some aspects of painterly paintings. The point of doing this is to (try to) make a thing (a 3D scene, generally) look the way you want it to.