As products of evolutionary design, our brains are finely tuned to navigate our social landscape. In an interplay of recognition and interpretation, the uncanny valley phenomenon emerges.

Impossibly polished surfaces, improbably perfect grass in the landscape, or an implausible amount of stillness in a render can make a render venture into uncanny valley territory. Our brains ...

The term uncanny valley refers to the creepy or unsettling feeling people often experience when robotic and digital representations look and act almost, but not exactly, like human beings.