Karrie788 wrote...
Ok, I have to ask, what do you all mean by "uncanny valley"?
I'm going to try and explain this without going to Wikipedia haha. So bear with me or feel free to skip.
Have you ever caught yourself watching the facial animations between
specifically human characters in ME3, and then suddenly you notice that they have a sort of "dead in the eyes" look, even though the rest of their face/body/voicework is perfectly expressive? And even though that detail of "aliveness in their eyes" seems so tiny and so subtle, is it just enough to - even mildly - make your skin crawl or make you feel creeped out? When you feel that sense of your skin crawling, or creeped outness, according to the theory, you're feeling repulsion. And that's when you've stepped into the Uncanny Valley.
The idea is, the less human something appears, even if it acts/talks human, you're still able to accept it without too much difficulty. It may be weird, scary, funny - whatever, but you aren't at that subtle, instinctive, skin crawling level of repulsion. But when something starts appearing really human to the point where you want to automatically accept it
as human, but you keep noticing these details that stop you short of being able to accept and it results in said feelings of instinctive repulsion - boom Uncanny Valley.
It's a hard thing to quantify because it's pretty much subjective, but if you want a more technical rundown
http://en.wikipedia..../Uncanny_valley.
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, except I want to find ways to crawl out of the uncanny valley.
