To be overly anal about it, uncanny valley concerns more the eeriness or revulsion 'peak' of a near lifelike replica. Think dead eyes in Polar Express or the plastic faces of Japan's android models.

This to me at least is beyond that trough on the uncanny valley chart, I do not sense any revulsion personally. I can of course detect it is still not real but no particular facet triggers that doppelganger reaction.

Liked the hands the most, most lifelike artificial hands I've seen, I think.

>> ^mxxcon:

>> ^spoco2:
It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.
You sure it's animation and not digitized previous footage?


Well, from the article I linked to: "The blend of previously recorded live footage and CGI was created by Digital Domain"

>> ^spoco2:

It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.
You sure it's animation and not digitized previous footage?

Yeah @lucky760, it's not a hologram (although someone took me to task about the exact definition of hologram once in the past).

It is projected onto a screen and it's a combination of previous live performances of Tupac and a digital creation by Digital Domain.

It's a bloody lifelike animation, I'll give it that.

When CGI is used right, it is awesome. With new facial mo cap techniques it can even look almost lifelike. But yes there are certainly times (to often these days) that CG is used as a crutch to carry a film, such as the newer Starwars movies. Actors spent so much time on green sets where cars were just green foam blocks they sat on and they spend almost their entire time talking to nothing, it produced only bad acting and painfully unrealistic CG characters.

I think Avatar was a success because there was very little 'actor to cg' interaction. Most the areas were sets instead of green screen so actors could immerse themselves into their part much better. Sure there was plenty of green screen in the movie. The forest areas, riding on the raptors,etc but it was just the right mix.

I'm to much an old school B movie fan. If you can do something with actual sets and miniatures, with only CG where you really cant do it otherwise, you'll have a much better movie than actors spending all their time sitting on blue foam talking to empty space.

Stunningly beautiful in their aesthetics and elegance.

The last one was the best by far for its lifelike motion and raindrop-like sound.

The name Theo Jansen should at least be in the tags, if not the title.

>> ^dag:

wow. wow. Really impressive. A very different approach than the massive industrial ASIMO - but, maybe coming from the toy angle and scaling up is a better way to go. I hope he open sources the software and lets people tinker.


I WANT!!!!

Thanks, dag!

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*promote

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>> ^ryanbennitt:
I sincerely hope the closest I ever have to get to war is through the medium of computer games. But as lifelike as they get even they don't bring the reality of it home, especially compared to the likes of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, and the first hand testimony of someone who was there tops the list. It's the politicians that send people to war, but it's the soldiers that have to deal with the humanity of it. If only the decision makers were the ones we send to fight, they might not be so keen...


If you want to do something about this, and think it will help, vote more veterans into office.

I sincerely hope the closest I ever have to get to war is through the medium of computer games. But as lifelike as they get even they don't bring the reality of it home, especially compared to the likes of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers, and the first hand testimony of someone who was there tops the list. It's the politicians that send people to war, but it's the soldiers that have to deal with the humanity of it. If only the decision makers were the ones we send to fight, they might not be so keen...