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makingmusic476 on 21 May 2008
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Rath said:
windbane said:
As for uncanny valley: I thnk it's the most overblown idea in videogames right now. Do we talk about this junk with movies? If something looks unrealistic, it'll just get better.

Uncanny valley isn't something looking unrealistic - humans handle that just fine. Its something that looks almost realistic. With a highly imperfect model of a human you notice the few things that are human and feel empathy towards it, with a nearly perfect model you notice the few things that are off and feel repulsed. Its not certain that the uncanny valley actually exists to be honest, but it is definitely highly possible.

The reason you don't talk about it for movies is that in movies humans are used, they are on the other side of the uncanny valley where the model is so close to perfect that you nothing is noticably 'un-human' about them, thus we feel empathy. The only time I can think of where it has been discussed in terms of movies is in one about human-like robots (It had a little child robot searching for 'The Blue Fairy'?) who humanity turns on.

 

Edit: And yes CGI films almost never try to be perfectly real and so they are not human enough to cause said reaction.

Exactly.  For example the clip I posted.  The animations make the entire thing very awkward and down right freaky, imo.  The eyes don't help either.