This is a video which is
3 years old and demonstrates how realistic photoshop techniques can be.
Learning | Top 5 Photoshop CS5 Features | Photoshop.com
The skills developed for video games can now simulate realistic people.
Activision R&D Real-time Character Demo - YouTube!
Which may lead you consider whether any video or photo of 'real news' event is actually real.
In the past few weeks I have been reading a forum where members have been revealing 'real news' events as photoshop fakes. It is quite amazing how minor details in a photo and video can reveal them as fake. The fakers are human and fakes hurredly produced can show that. It does make me wonder how absolutely realistic photos and videos could be if they took their time.
'Seeing is believing' can no longer be a valid statement if you weren't there.