Friday 9 September 2016
CGI is moving fast, very fast. Not just for added effects in movies, but also for creating completely lifelike 3D models. The biggest problem facing the animation community is an effect called the ‘uncanny valley’. We’re confronted with this when we see something that looks nearly human, but just not quite. Humans are so good at recognizing other humans, that’s it’s extremely hard to create a thing that looks like a normal, healthy person and not a zombie or a corpse. It’s explained in the graph below: We’ve become pretty good at making CGI look like it’s almost real, but the real challenge is making…
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