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Mar 22, 2018 29 min

Digital People Try to Leave the Uncanny Valley

from Imaginary Worlds Hosted by Eric Molinsky | Daylight Media

The holy grail for many animators is to create digital humans that can pass for the real thing -- in other words to cross the "uncanny valley." The problem is that the closer they get to realism, the more those almost-real humans repulse us. Blame evolution for that.

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