cg,real,facial,animation,emily,image metrics,emily The Uncanny Valley is nearly crossed.

The Uncanny Valley is nearly crossed.

posted by therealblankman

1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago • 2038 views

tags: cg, real, facial, animation, emily, image metrics, emily

The most realistic cg facial animation yet? Wow.

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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.

written by coreburn | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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Downvote for screaming in my fucking ear!

written by K0MMIE

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by budzos

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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I can still tell it's not real.

written by rottenseed

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by dgandhi

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by budzos

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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

written by dannym3141

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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

written by swedishfriend | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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

written by MaxWilder

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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)

written by spoco2

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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

written by quantumushroom

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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.

written by HadouKen24 | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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written by ricin | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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It's still missing something in the eyes.

written by 8116 | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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

written by Spiff

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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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

written by NicoleBee

| 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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

written by ridesallyridenc | 1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago | CH

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