This may be bleeding edge, but CGI appears to be catching up with you know what.

From principal creator, Jorge Jimenez:

“It shows our latest and final advances on real-time skin rendering (Separable Subsurface Scattering), which enables [one] to quickly render skin in just two post-processing passes. Everything is written from scratch using DirectX 10 and rendered in real-time, from the skin to the film grain…”

Jorge, bless his heart, is open-sourcing the tech behind his creation. Get the details on the Vimeo page.