Comments on: The Uncanny Valley http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/12/the-uncanny-valley/ I'm gonna say this once and once only. Stay out of Camberwick Green! Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:19:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: lambic http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/12/the-uncanny-valley/#comment-48687 lambic Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:48:16 +0000 http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/12/the-uncanny-valley/#comment-48687 When you can't tell the difference between an animated on-screen character and a real-life on-screen actor then the uncanny valley has been bridged. Gollum was an incredible piece of animation, fitting in totally with the "real" surroundings, but if they'd tried to make him human, tried to make him look like Andy Serkis it would've been a failure. So Paula Abdul is real? When you can’t tell the difference between an animated on-screen character and a real-life on-screen actor then the uncanny valley has been bridged.

Gollum was an incredible piece of animation, fitting in totally with the “real” surroundings, but if they’d tried to make him human, tried to make him look like Andy Serkis it would’ve been a failure.

So Paula Abdul is real?

]]> By: Procrasto http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/12/the-uncanny-valley/#comment-48613 Procrasto Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:35:11 +0000 http://www.lambic.co.uk/blog/archives/2007/12/the-uncanny-valley/#comment-48613 Surely one of the things that has to happen to achieve this is to create an absolute 3D environment such as hologram or whatever... In movies that is always implicit without actuially happening and it's what defines the real life from the animated. Ask Paula Abdul. I like my Laura Croft in 2D all the same. Surely one of the things that has to happen to achieve this is to create an absolute 3D environment such as hologram or whatever…

In movies that is always implicit without actuially happening and it’s what defines the real life from the animated. Ask Paula Abdul.

I like my Laura Croft in 2D all the same.

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