To me the best modeling, texturing and animation is still Shrek. 
in terms of realistic humans, i'd probably agree. in terms of stylised humans, though,
The Incredibles and
Ratatouille are better - i think the fact that they are obviously
not trying to be photo-real probably helps audiences to accept them, but Pixar still put a lot of effort into texturing and rendering, so that they don't look fake and plasticky like a lot of other studios' CG humans do. i have to admit i find myself responding better to Linguini than to this new character, even though Linguini's nose is 10 times the size of what any real human would have!
the big problem for photo-real CG humans is, though: if you want real, then why not just shoot live-action, for pete's sake? i've never heard any filmmaker satisfactorily answer that one.
- colclough
