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Unread 11-30-2011, 08:25 PM   #11
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I grew up in the uncanny valley. My dad's a ventriloquist so dummies don't freak me out the way they do a lot of people.

CGI has never bothered me, either. There are only two times it's bothered me. One was when a dummy head my dad made but never used started rotting so he was going to burn it, but told me I could take the eyes out before he did (I was thinking of building my own dummy at the time). I took it out back, smashed it open, and seeing a human looking head with part of its skull missing was just creepy.

The second thing was a youtube video of robot heads chanting "freedom." It looked like someone took the facial skin off of cadavers and draped it over mechanical constructs. It didn't help that they didn't have any sort of bodies, just mechanical heads with loose synthetic skin on a table.
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Unread 12-01-2011, 02:01 AM   #12
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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
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".
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Unread 12-01-2011, 02:28 AM   #13
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It isn't just CG; perfectly alive flesh-bearing humans can still project an air of unnervingness.

Case in point: the jerk they got to replace Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K in that MIB 3 film that got mentioned in this thread.



Fucker still makes me want to reach for the panic button.
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Unread 12-01-2011, 02:55 AM   #14
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Unread 12-01-2011, 02:57 AM   #15
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Unread 12-01-2011, 05:52 AM   #16
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The uncanny valley is how we tell between regular god-fearing humans and creepy alien dopplegangers. And I'm thankful for it.
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