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30 Jul 2024 04:23:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mars needs to get the heck out of the Uncanny Valley  
From: gregjohn
Date: 8 Apr 2011 07:05:01
Message: <web.4d9eeb49de00569634d207310@news.povray.org>
Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> gregjohn <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> >
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663530/did-the-uncanny-valley-kill-disneys-cgi-company
>
>   What I don't understand about these few movies which try to approach
> 100% realism with 100% CGI is why. What's the point? Why not use real
> actors for humans and CGI for others? It's not like it hasn't been done
> before (and quite successfully at that).
>

Um, why povray? Why so many blokes trying to approach 100% realism?

(My answer: You shouldn't! Povray is cooler when put to service to making
unreal, impossible, or stylized things, but in scenes with plausible physics.)


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