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I should've added that I didn't think the sushi in the video made it safely through the uncanny valley. I wonder if by their juxtaposition, this helps make the hand seem more natural.

>> ^mtadd:

Uncanny valley? That hand looks like its safely crossed the uncanny valley.


Uncanny valley is different from person to person, the source placed it in the valley. I feel the same way you do about it.

I placed the tag exactly for this kind of discussion :-)

Uncanny valley? That hand looks like its safely crossed the uncanny valley.

"Welcome to the uncanny valley!" Says The Polar Express movie.

Uncanny valley for the white guy. The Asian dude, though...somehow the real guy was just as devoid of human emotion as the robot.

Upvote for uncanny valley. Lolzorz.

doctors that create these eyes are real artists.
they have to match size, color, pattern and shape to the perfection. other you'll get that 'uncanny valley' feeling when you are talking to somebody w/ such an eye.

And lo and behold we traverse the uncanny valley.

You do realize that Polar Express has been universally panned for having almost zombie-level animation

Oh - I realize it. They show the stupid movie every Christmas now, and by process of random chance I am occasionally exposed to a few seconds of it. It really and truely is an awful movie - and not just because of the creepy Uncanny Valley factor, and the nuclear Santa. The writing is just awful, and you can tell that Hanks was just dailing this one in. The movie has more padding than a linebacker because it was like a 10 page kid's book stretched out into a feature film. And the so-called 'musical numbers'? When I saw that Hot Chocolate song I about ralphed. The Polar Express movie is a massive stinkburger that should have been on MST3K.

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>> ^Hybrid:

Beat ya to it.
Dupe of http://videosift.com/video/Rockstar-s-L-A-Noire-Animation-and
-Facial-Tech-Trailer


That's cool - only I can't really verify and * dupeof this one, because yours seems to be a YT embed (right?) and YT is blocked where I work (I just see white instead of the embed).

Give me a shout as soon as this is taken care of though, since I want to slap a quality on yours.

Check out those uncanny valley's.

The Unreal Engine is perhaps the easiest engine to create levels in, at least for me. I never got the hang of making levels in Source or any of the id Tech engines. Of course I am just talking the base level design. After that I don't know which would be easiest to add the effects and like to as I never got that far with the other two major ones. I like the looks of this, but agree that it is hard to judge it until we see it in action with AI and character animation. I love Rage and what id is doing with id Tech 5, but the character's look like they are deep in the uncanny valley at the moment.

I also agree that consoles really need a good midterm refresh. Not a full new system, more like a 360.5 and a PS3.5. For the 360 upgrade it to XBox 360 Blue.
This hypothetical 360 features not just a Blu-Ray drive, but one ups it by going for Blu-Ray XL compatible. Controllers/remote etc. upgrade to bluetooth, though the old controllers would still have to work for now, the idea is more to setup for the next generation. Tie in with Win 7 mobile devices so you can pick plays on sport games from them, have a remote control in them, and some other games may tie to them as an option as well in whatever form developers feel like they can do. If possible without breaking compatibility with old 360 games (360 Blue exclusive games would be available so they wouldn't work on the old 360 as they come on Blu-Ray) a mild refresh to the graphics, more memory mostly, but if possible a Direct X 11 compatible chip, of course at that point you are nearly at a full refresh and not just a mid-generation refresh. I would say make Live free so you can do Netflix and online play for free, and user replaceable hard drives, but I doubt Microsoft sees that as part of their plans.
The PS3 would be much the same, upgrade to XL and if possible more memory and a slight graphics increase...
With both you can't really do too much for a mid-term refresh without moving to what is essentially a new machine.
Computers are always ahead of consoles on what they can do, but this new 7-10 year cycle is starting to show its age more than usual. I sure hope they don't go 10 years, 2 more years would be more than enough...though if they were 2 years out I would think there would be more rumors of what they are doing by now, so we probably do have more than that.

This is also stating the obvious, but subsurface scattering, per-particle physics, lens synthesis, and all the photon tracing in the world won't get 3D out of the Uncanny Valley. This is very pretty, tho.