A Valley of Uncanniness


Today I learned that the uneasy feeling I get from seeing badly rendered humanoids is described in a hypothesis called the Uncanny Valley. It states that there is a valley of revulsion between “somewhat human” and “fully human” as proven in films featuring computer-generated characters ranging from the 2004 The Polar Express to the 2019 rendition of Cats.

Uncanny Valley

Now you know!