Mimesis and Diegesis

Mimesis - The imitation of the perfection on nature. A form of Showing.

Diegesis - A form of telling or narrating.

Mimesis is a very complex theory creating something exactly like nature intended is more difficult to do than said nothing can ever be recreated the same. The real cannot be reflected in any straight forward way. For example if I had a drawing I really liked and I wanted to recreate it again using a photocopier the quality wouldn't be as good and the quality will get worse and worse the more I photocopy them.


‘At first glance, mimesis seems to be a stylizing of reality in which the ordinary features of our world are brought into focus by a certain exaggeration, the relationship of the imitation to the object it imitates being something like the relationship of dancing to walking. Imitation always involves selecting something from the continuum of experience, thus giving boundaries to what really has no beginning or end. Mimêsis involves a framing of reality that announces that what is contained within the frame is not simply real. Thus the more "real" the imitation the more fraudulent it becomes’ (Davis 1999)


To understand this quote I think Davis is talking about is the more real you try to make things look the more unrealistic it is. Which i could agree with from my research into realism and comparing Coraline and Mars needs Moms.


Reality effects in CGI is trying to create reality so they try to develop different reality effects to do this. In early CGI they were using space to create the real however later discovered textures gave a more sophisticated rendering.


Reviewing looking at these theories I am finding it hard to understand however I would like to look into it more and be bale to understand it as I will be very interesting for my final assessment essay.