SAN FRANCISCO—Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture ... impressively real, uncanny-valley-leaping facial animation ...

The term uncanny ... the uncanny valley, as this article from TheRobotReport described her as The Creepiest Robot of CES. Films such as "Polar Express" and "Beowulf" used early motion capture ...

they remain friends—to when Zemeckis first dipped into the Uncanny Valley with The Polar Express, a holiday fantasy produced via the questionable magic of motion-capture animation. (Think of it ...

New Zealand-based StretchSense, a maker of hand motion capture technology ... a finer and more accurate capture of details, lowering the threshold of the uncanny valley in animations and ...

That has partly to do with how animators use data from motion-capture sessions with human actors. When motion-capture sensors record a person’s movements, “there’s something lost,” Shim said.

Thankfully, the motion capture tech is excellent, with only a few 'uncanny valley' moments, and these are mostly noticed with one character (Emma). The material work also holds up to close ...

There are technical challenges: How do you capture ... by motion: An immovable corpse causes less intense impressions than a moving zombie. It remains unclear whether the uncanny valley effect ...

In some ways, watching a de-aged actor is even more uncanny than taking another look at these mo-cap zombies, because your brain knows, especially by now, that motion-capture animation is an ...