James Cameron’s Avatar to Overcome Uncanny Valley?
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James Cameron revealed at the Microsoft Advance ‘08 event that Avatar will be the first film to feature photo-realistic characters which actually look real.
“ Avatar will make people truly experience something. One more layer of the suspension of disbelief will be removed. All the syn-thespians are photo-realistic. Now that we’ve achieved it, we discovered CG characters in ...
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Avatar to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
Published 5/21/2008 by john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) at The Movie Blog
James Cameron has often been hailed as a living legend giving us such wonderous films as the Terminator, Aliens and the Abyss. All of those movies involved special effects that give life to inanimate objects so it makes sense that these iconic benchmarks would be in the background of the man intending to break one more. James Cameron claims that his upcoming film the Avatar will bridge The Uncanny Valley.
/Film breaks it down:
For those who don’t know, Uncanny Valley is basically a theory that “when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and ...
