The phenomenon is a consideration in a number of areas of design including robotics, video game art, training simulators and 3-D animation. Designers work hard to avoid the Uncanny Valley or ...

The uncanny valley is what makes the CG animation of Bob Zemeckis movies so skin-crawling. It’s why we cringed through Mass Effect: Andromeda. The reason AI generated babies raise instinctual ...

The uncanny valley effect depends on age ... that converts a video of a person speaking on an iPhone camera into a 3D animation that can be imported into Unity or Unreal Engine.

“Animation is unreal ... AI struggle to portray human characters convincingly — what’s known as “uncanny valley.” But if the main character is an animal, a cartoon person or an alien ...

One of the reasons AI may make in-roads into animation first is that currently ... characters convincingly — what’s known as “uncanny valley.” But if the main character is an animal ...