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Originally Posted by Aerozord
But maybe all of that is wrong, and what I am really missing is that the uncanny valley is not as big of a deal as its made out to be and most people are like me, only mildly bothered or indifferent about it. That the things just look fake and silly, not unsettling and scary
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Uncanny valley, from my understanding with computer graphics, isn't supposed to be scary, necessarily. It just means it's super human looking but just off enough to look odd or wrong. Like, for example. The humans in Tangled are stylized and aren't supposed to look photorealistic, but the humans in the polar express are much closer to photorealism, but the slight amount they're off makes them unbelievable. It's the same thing that makes
terrible self portraits a little bit creepy while
cartoony caricatures look "right". Sometimes things in uncanny valley are creepy, while others are just mildly bothersome. The only constant is that your head says that it looks "wrong".