Comments for "The Uncanny Valley is nearly crossed." Video at VideoSift.com

By coreburn

coreburn (http://www.videosift.com/member/coreburn) — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:59:21 -0700

For most of the video the sound is really quiet. Turning sound way up was bad idea, the sudden LOUD scream almost made me drop my drink.

By K0MMIE

K0MMIE (http://www.videosift.com/member/K0MMIE) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:09:46 -0700

Downvote for screaming in my fucking ear!

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:34:16 -0700

I find the real girl in this video to be extremely hot. Anyone else?

As for the technology, it still looks way wrong when the characters smile.

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:08:05 -0700

I can still tell it's not real.

By dgandhi

dgandhi (http://www.videosift.com/member/dgandhi) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:08:26 -0700

I would have to say that these folks walked down to the bottom of uncanny valley and built a cabin there, I hear the fishing is good. I hope they start walking up the other side soon.

By budzos

budzos (http://www.videosift.com/member/budzos) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:29:39 -0700

I don't think the OP understands what "uncanny valley" is. It's not somewhere you want to be, it's where photo real human CG characters are currently stuck; where people's reaction to the "photo real" character is a sense of loooking at an automoton or zombie.

By dannym3141

dannym3141 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dannym3141) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:58:27 -0700

The lips give it away that it's not real imo. Still great stuff.

By swedishfriend

swedishfriend (http://www.videosift.com/member/swedishfriend) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:19:19 -0700

not very close to the real face. The real face is much more expressive and twitchy. Muscles and tendons can be seen moving in the real face. Matrix, other movies and some game cinematics have been better already. -karl

By MaxWilder

MaxWilder (http://www.videosift.com/member/MaxWilder) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:22:21 -0700

I wouldn't say that others have done it better, but this is still a long way from getting out of the valley.

By spoco2

spoco2 (http://www.videosift.com/member/spoco2) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:30:03 -0700

I don't find it particularly 'real' as such, I have seen better than this. The impressive thing is that it's an auto generated animation based on the actor, and in that, for the fine level of detail it achieves it's impressive.

But no, not that realistic.

Also, I think the poster does indeed understand what the uncanny valley is. They're suggesting that this is really close to being so good that we stop having the revulsion reaction to the cg character and start accepting it as human. (see the graph on the wikipedia page to understand what we're on about)

By quantumushroom

quantumushroom (http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:05:32 -0700

I would forgive all--even the scream--if she were virtually topless.

By HadouKen24

HadouKen24 (http://www.videosift.com/member/HadouKen24) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:13:55 -0700

All it would take for this thing to cross the uncanny valley would be a bit more work with the eyes. They're just not "alive." Really, though, that's just an engineering problem; it's just a somewhat more fine-tuned version of what they have already done.

By ricin

ricin (http://www.videosift.com/member/ricin) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:51:01 -0700

Image Metrics was featured on the CGSociety website.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4480

By Kaigen

Kaigen (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kaigen) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:17:16 -0700

It's still missing something in the eyes.

By Spiff

Spiff (http://www.videosift.com/member/Spiff) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:47:15 -0700

Well, the animation system looks incredible. Now they just need to develop a better audio normalization algorithm.

By NicoleBee

NicoleBee (http://nicolebee.videosift.com) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:10:20 -0700

the uncanny valley will always be there as long as game developers are too lazy to animate their mocap stuff properly. There are some painful mocap performances out there that do not match at all with the models they are put in to, especially when it involves lipsynching, and it seems less and less like animators are willing to tweak them to make sure they even look right on the model they're going on!

Erm, I mean.. This is really neat! n.n

By ridesallyridenc

ridesallyridenc (http://www.videosift.com/member/ridesallyridenc) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:58 -0700

Yeah, I think this is smack dab in the middle of the valley...