• more about #uncannyvalley
    SJ_Edwards: The first time I consciously started noticing, what I now know as the concept of the Uncanny Valley [en.wikipedia.org] , was after reading an article ... more »
    dermot: I used to animate for Don Bluth. Don developed a distrust of his animators for some reason, and relied more and more heavily on live action reference.... more »
    Sylocat: The Orville Redenbacher one made Cracked.com's list of "10 Awesome Ads (For Traumatizing Children)." One of their captions under a screenshot from th... more »
    Ronnoc: What annoys me about the UV is that there is a nice little graph that goes along with it, and no one ever points out where in the valley whatever they... more »
    kivel: i saw Orville Redenbacher (undead) and swore off the popcorn. It hit 12 on the 10 setting creepo meter more »
    it must be bunnies: The thing that bothered me the most about that Matrix Reloaded fight scene was how boring it was. I kept thinking how it should be exciting, only it ... more »
    firstanointed: That's one of the interesting things about Avatar's CGI vs the scary CGI depicted here. The Na'Vi don't look terribly creepy or unreal. They don't giv... more »
    goldfarb: the Orville Redenbacher spots were done to test the tech for Benjamin Button... Zemeckis should have abandoned the method he (and others) uses becaus... more »
    Kakkoii: The uncanney valley doesn't effect me. The more realistic the better! more »
    Barnabus: Does that horrifying commercial with the roller-dancing babies count? Ye gods, when they all leap at the fence it's like something out of Silent Hill. more »
    korybing: The Beatles Rockband graphics are horrifying. They look like dead-eyed puppets and it freaks me the hell out. I wish the entire game was in the same ... more »
    Ghost_in_the_Machine: The Palm Pre commercials are CGI? They looked real to me. more »
    Belabras: FF: Spirits Within was solidly in the valley for me. more »
    dry-roasted-peanuts: I would like to nominate the entire cast of Resident Evil: Degneration. more »
    omgwtflolbbqbye: I wouldn't put Matrix on here. The cuts in the scene were so quick and the motion so blurry you never got a good look at the cgi reeves and weavings,... more »
    Ruthless, If you let me: The new Sunmaid girl is all kinds of wrong. more »
    RoboBagins: Was this supposed to be about bad CGI or CGI so good it hits the uncanny valley? Because a lot of these are just bad or stylized CGI. I don't think ... more »
    A Man. A Plan. A Nalpanama.: How about 3-D Homer? Or the Ally McBeal dancing baby? more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: What about Cherry...? more »
    korbermeister: In the movie A.I. the robots were very life-like (obviously) but there those moments when they would give their 'not-quite-human' selves away because... more »
  • #uncannyvalley

    Ranking The Creep Factor Of Human CGI: The Uncanny Valley Effect

    The more realistic a CG human is, the creepier they become. There's nothing spookier than a half-computer half-child CG face on the big screen. We've ranked all the worst CG humans, in order of creepiness. More »
  • #killerrobots

    The Scariest Killer Robots Look Like Dead People

    We're scared of robots that look almost, but not quite, human... because they remind us of walking corpses. And the deadliest killer robots are often the ones which exploit this zombie fear, before slaughtering us. More »
  • #uncannyrobots

    David Byrne's Singing Robot Is Deliberately Creepy