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#645 – How CGI ruined movies (new episodes air 08/15/22)

The Counsel of Trent

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The Uncanny Valley

When a robot or an animation of a human only looks 95% human, suddenly you don't like it. That's called the uncanny valley. And there 's hypr an hypothesis for why that is. We evolve to spot when other humans are sick or not doing well and so if they don't look healthy, we stay away from them. So toy story works, that sid is kind of in the uncanny valley,. He's creepy looking, but that's ok because, ah, you know, it's a he's the villain. They do that well with incredibles. When try to reproduce human beings, or try to put human beings into the background a and try to put other

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