Leslie Rodriguez: Flubber
Leslie Rodriguez: Great post!
Heidi Ruby Miller: I can see the appeal in this type of iconography…I mean, who hasn’t...
Michael Arnzen: Another recent, related blog entry by John S: http://digitalculture-ed.ne...
Robin Goodfellow: Sorry – just realised you gave the link above at the beginning of your post....
Robin Goodfellow: Michael & others I’ve given my own account of Sian’s talk with...
“[Ideas about the Double] have sprung from the soil of unbounded self-love, from the primary narcissism which dominates the mind of the child and of primitive man. But when this stage has been surmounted, the ‘double’ reverses its aspect. From having been an assurance of immortality, it becomes the uncanny harbinger of death.”
— , “The Uncanny” (1919)
James Portnow and Daniel Floyd present a very articulate explanation of ‘uncanny valley’ theory for game developers in their animated lecture series for Edge-Online, “Video Games and the Uncanny Valley”. I particularly like the explanation of the pros and cons to the two strategies game designers and animators are using to approach the ‘problem’ — photorealism and stylization.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Great post!