History UncannyValley / Other

* While the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-AGWq0k_Mo&feature=related Big Dog]] robot doesn't really resemble any living creature, it is the robot’s leg movements that seem a little unsettling (especially at around 1:12). It looks like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXJZVZFRFJc two footless humans walking head to head.]]

* The UncannyValley is often why people prefer to draw toony or animeseque styles, especially on ''DeviantART''. Even if you can draw people and animals realistically, there's always something that makes them look ''VERY'' off.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlpnA-wJMHw So many listed from China's animation series']].
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv6hRqW_I-g animatronic Elvis bust]] falls squarely into this category.

* The tech demo for Heavy Rain. You know, The Casting? [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/10758.html This vid?]]
* Any type of CG face that is made to show what someone (usually a historical figure) might have looked like. Then again, Tutankhamen supposedly [[NightmareRetardant looks like Boy George]].
* Most Disney mascot costumes are either animal suits (Mickey, Donald, etc.), ''extremely'' cartoony humans (Lilo, Pinocchio), or just regular people in costumes (Disney/{{Aladdin}}, the princesses), avoiding the valley. Captain Hook, on the other hand, is just ''disturbing''; he bears an unsettling resemblance to [[VForVendetta V]]. Or rather, V looks like him.
* The animatronics at the DisneyThemeParks can have this effect at times, especially in rides that have a large number of human animatronics like It's A Small World.
* Slowly decreasing as technology advances, but the CGI characters that interact with DisneyThemeParks guests in real-time in shows like “Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor” and “Turtle Talk With Crush” have a decent yet finite amount of facial expressions. The lip movements don’t always match the words and the transition from ‘normal face’ to ‘comically shocked’ is like whiplash. None of the characters are supposed to be realistic, being cartoony monsters and turtles and such, but the way the eyes and mouths can move around and ''still'' be flat is unnerving. This was improved a good bit with interactive-Stitch in the ''very'' short-lived “Stitch’s Supersonic Celebration” but the rest of the show sucked so bad that the whole thing was scrapped within a few weeks.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_photography Postmortem photography]], the Victorian custom of taking pictures of corpses posed as if they were alive. They sit in chairs, they hold each others' hands... but they're horribly, obviously ''dead.'' The modern versions of such photography are worse. Color photography plus the discoloration skin undergoes due to decomposition equals Very Very Wrong.
* Nintendo, in an effort to promote their [=WiiSpeak=] microphone, has a demo set up in their Nintendo World store in New York City, where kids can gather around and talk to a virtual representation of Mario, Wario, and others who will respond back. Whoever is speaking as the Italians (maybe Charles Martinet, maybe just a really good impersonator) does a fine job providing the voices of these characters, but the characters themselves are like some horrible cross between old cartoony graphics and videogame graphics, resulting in Mario and Wario looking ''creepier than they ever have in history.'' This isn't helped by the fact that they can apparently play with their faces ala the interactive face in ''Super Mario 64''.
* [[http://www.maconlysource.com/Gallery/images/apples.jpg This Picture]] of apples with faces.
* The 8,000 terracotta warriors in Mausouleum of the Chinese Emperor Qin.
** Evidence suggests that each one was based on a real individual, and they were placed there in lieu of being buried alive, so at least it's better than the alternative.
* "Untooning", which involves digital pictures of cartoon characters with photorealistic details regarding the skin, hair, eyes, texture, etc, while KEEPING the cartoon proportions and the size and shape of the features.
* ''[[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7920962.stm How would a typical woman look with Barbie's figure?]]'' (BBC News Magazine)
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwvyZOn9xaI This "virtual" interview.]] Simon Mayo and {{Mark Kermode}} recorded an interview with Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass, then broadcast it a few weeks later...and this was the result. It's not exactly creepy, but it's incredibly...weird.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57zsMfuTk1U&feature=player_embedded This]] animatronic bottom-half-of-a-face. Would it be more frightening if it were actually speaking instead of making those awful random noises? You, the viewer, decide!
* Without a doubt, Jack Davis is an extraordinarily talented artist. But sometimes, he puts a little too much emphasis on making the face look like a photograph, yet gives the rest of the body typical cartoon proportions...
* In a promotional tie-in with Sprint {{Smallville}} produced a spin-off CGI series called "Smallville Legends: the Oliver Queen Chronicles" that fell really, really hard into the Uncanny Valley.
* The website MorphThing.com allows users to morph two or more faces of celebrities and famous fictional characters. The mixes of these faces are a lot creepier and photo realistic, especially if Gollum's face is included.
* I bring the new face of your nighmares, [[http://effects.worth1000.com/contests/24236/celebrity-plushie-3 Plush.]]
* NBC's Saturday Morning Cartoon bumpers from Fall 1990 fall deep into uncanny valley for some. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCJb01FxV0o here]] it is .
* Tara the Android. Having made her debut in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI& Fantastic Hey Hey Hey]], she has returned to wander the earth spreading even more incomprehensible and terrifying videos. Watch anything on [[http://www.youtube.com/user/halloweenandroid her Youtube channel]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/user/halloweenandroid#p/u/3/4jQivl2XLBw you might well die in seven days]].
* [[http://i54.tinypic.com/2cqno1g.jpg Buy these earrings]]! The creepy mannequin's curse might ''not'' get you.
* Ladies and Gents, 'PhineasAndFerb: The Best Live Tour Ever' gives us some new nightmares. [[http://www.ctpost.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1562207&width=628&height=471 The eyes...THE EYES!]]
* Photorealistic, CGI furries. Too animalistic to be people, too humanoid to be animals.
* Ventriloquist dummies, when realistically built, can fall ''right'' into the valley. It also doesn't help when they make movements that look ''way'' too unrealistic.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ brilliant portraits]] of people made up entirely of everyday objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, and even tinier humans.

** It's mostly that horrible tongue... it's so lifeless.

** In general, if you're trying to draw, say, a woman's face, and you don't put the eyes ''just so'', you're screwed.
* Sometimes, pausing the video when people are talking can lead to some rather...funny expressions. Or ugly.
** A favorite tactic of photographers (and their editors) who want to catch a politician looking ridiculous.

* Statues of children are just... so... creepy.

** The original Small World is considerably to the left of the valley; the vast majority of the figures are only very slightly more human-looking than a Raggedy Ann doll.

** By the same token, bodies that have been prepared for open-casket funerals and visitations.
* Those [[http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/2009/02/double-exposures.html double-exposure portraits]] that were all the rage, for some strange reason, in the '70s and '80s. Also referred to as [[http://www.sexypeople-blog.com/2009/03/double-exposures-pt2.html "floating head photos"]] by children of that era. They were a very popular format for child and senior pictures, despite their creepiness.

* "Untooning", which involves digital pictures of cartoon characters with photorealistic details regarding the skin, hair, eyes, texture, etc, while KEEPING the cartoon proportions and the size and shape of the features. Examples can be seen under the "advertising" folder.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z93LpeeCYY Sleep tight, Obama fans.]]
* Clowns. Parts of their facial expressions are fixed, painted on, and the parts of their expressions which move are deliberately exagerrated. Clown puppets are even worse.
** Mimes. Don't forget mimes.

** Probably closer to [[http://jezebel.com/5882734/romanian-model-with-20+inch-waist-a-fave-of-pro+ana-porn-site# this]].

* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/untoons This]] meme. Better yet, the image gallery.
** Though [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/44922 Buzz]] [[ToyStory Lightyear]] is pretty awesome.
** However, the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/44908 Charlie Brown]] is pure, unadulterated NightmareFuel.

** The website even has a baby feature! Beware of the children of morphed faces.

* The current (2010-08-17) page picture for FourFingeredHands.
* Oh god, the 1950s/60s TV show [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3VnwAOXDQ Torchy The Battery Boy]]. Basically horrifying puppet CREATED by another (old man) puppet as his [[UnfortunateImplications "toy]] [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything boy."]] SO WRONG and so creepy and so [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking MICHAEL JACKSON.]]

* [[http://i54.tinypic.com/2cqno1g.jpg Buy these earrings]]! The creepy mannequin's curse might ''not'' get you. Anything that initially looks human but turns out not to be is pretty much automatically this trope.
* On ThisWiki, the entire reason TheVirus is scary. Well, that [[GrandTheftMe and...]]
* Some of the AdultSwim bumps on Saturday between anime can be especially weird and kind of creepy, ones like the live action children at a school wearing makeup while playing odd music while characters from Adult Swim's original shows appear looking just plain weird and creepy in the background, the talking mirror bump the lunch lady that says theif in a deep voice as one of the girls with makeup on takes a whole thing of some kind of food from the lunch area are just a few, though the one with the asian robot's face of a woman has to take the cake for how werid and creepy the bumps during that play between anime is, especially because that one plays around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, so thats not exactly something that this troper and others likes seeing before bed, is it any wonder so many people might avoid watching anime when Adult Swim shows it? I mean the bumps aren't exactly inviting, and its made even worse by the fact that anime only plays during midnight and onward up until 6:00 in the morning, most people don't exactly like seeing something so weird and creepy before bed.
* The mascot of the UK bus company Megabus, which is a cartoony looking fellow... with slightly realistic-looking facial features (eyes, nose, and mouth). The end result is [[http://loades.net/megabusblog/images/uploads/magic_bus--large-msg-118586301587.jpg creepy as heck]].

** JeffDunham's first puppets fell right into the valley. The ones he uses now are heavily stylized and cartoony so they don't look as unrealistic and uncanny. However, Achmed Jr. who looks more realistic and also happens to have [[BodyHorror half his skin and muscle blown off]] falls head-first into the uncanny valley.

* [[http://laura.moncur.org/photos/newfriends.jpg This Postsecret.]]

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ brilliant portraits]] of people made up entirely of common objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, and even tinier humans.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ portraits]] of people made up entirely of common objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, and even tinier humans.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's brilliant [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ portraits]] of people made up entirely of common objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, and even tinier humans.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ portraits]] of people made up entirely of common objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, and even tinier humans.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ portraits]] of people made up entirely of common objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, even tinier humans.

* 16th century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo's [[http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ portraits]] of people made up entirely of objects such as fruit and vegetables, flowers, fish, cooking utensils, even tinier humans.

* Lifelike sculptures of BeavisAndButthead that were done by special effects make artist Kevin Kirkpatrick. [[http://clutch.mtv.com/2012/01/20/beavis-and-butt-head-sculptures/ BE VERY AFRAID!!!]]

* Ladies and Gents, 'The Best Live Tour Ever' gives us some new nightmares. [[http://www.ctpost.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1562207&width=628&height=471 The eyes...THE EYES!]]
* Photorealistic, CGI furries. Too animalistic to be people, too humanoid to be animals.

* Photorealistic, CGi furries. Too animalistic to be people, too humanoid to be animals.

* Ladies and Gents, 'The Best Live Tour Ever' gives us some new nightmares. [[http://www.ctpost.com/mediaManager/?controllerName=image&action=get&id=1562207&width=628&height=471 The eyes...THE EYES!]]

* The mascot of the UK bus company Megabus, which is a cartoony looking fellow... with slightly realistic-looking facial features (eyes, nose, and mouth). The end result is [[http://loades.net/megabusblog/images/uploads/magic_bus--large-msg-118586301587.jpg creepy as heck]].

* Some of the Adult Swim bumps on Saturday between anime can be especially weird and kind of creepy, ones like the live action children at a school wearing makeup while playing odd music while characters from Adult Swim's original shows appear looking just plain weird and creepy in the background, the talking mirror bump the lunch lady that says theif in a deep voice as one of the girls with makeup on takes a whole thing of some kind of food from the lunch area are just a few, though the one with the asian robot's face of a woman has to take the cake for how werid and creepy the bumps during that play between anime is, especially because that one plays around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, so thats not exactly something that this troper and others likes seeing before bed, is it any wonder so many people might avoid watching anime when Adult Swim shows it? I mean the bumps aren't exactly inviting, and its made even worse by the fact that anime only plays during midnight and onward up until 6:00 in the morning, most people don't exactly like seeing something so weird and creepy before bed.

* Some of the Adult Swim bumps on Saturday between anime can be especially weird and kind of creepy, ones like the live action children at a school wearing makeup while playing odd music while characters from Adult Swim's original shows appear looking just plain weird and creepy in the background, the talking mirror bump the lunch lady that says theif in a deep voice as one of the girls with makeup on takes a whole thing of some kind of food from the lunch area are just a few, though the one with the asian robot's face of a woman has to take the cake for how werid and creepy the bumps during that play between anime is, especially because that one plays around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, so thats not exactly something that this troper and others likes seeing before bed, is it any wonder so many people might avoid watching anime when Adult Swim shows it? I mean the bumps aren't exactly inviting, and its made even worse by the fact that anime only plays during midnight and onward up until 6:00 in the morning, most people don't exactly like seeing something so weird and creepy before bed.

It happens not just in the media listed in the UncannyValley page, but also everywhere else.

* Some of the Adult Swim bumps on Saturday during anime can be especially weird and kind of creepy, ones like the live action children at a school wearing makeup while playing odd music while characters from Adult Swim's original shows appear looking just plain weird and creepy in the background, the talking mirror bump the lunch lady that says theif in a deep voice as one of the girls with makeup on takes a whole thing of some kind of food from the lunch area are just a few, though the one with the asian robot's face of a woman has to take the cake for how werid and creepy the bumps during the anime is, especially because that one plays around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, so thats not exactly something that this troper and others likes seeing before bed, is it any wonder so many people might avoid watching anime when Adult Swim shows it? I mean the bumps aren't exactly inviting, and its made even worse by the fact that anime only plays during midnight and onward up until 6:00 in the morning, most people don't exactly like seeing something so weird and creepy before bed.

* On ThisWiki, the entire reason TheVirus is scary. Well, that [[GrandTheftMe and...]]

* Slowly decreasing as technology advances, but the CGI characters that interact with DisneyThemeParks guests in real-time in shows like “Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor” and “Turtle Talk With Crush” have a decent yet finite amount of facial expressions. The lip movements don’t always match the words and the transition from ‘normal face’ to ‘comically shocked’ is like whiplash. None of the characters are supposed to be realistic, being cartoony monsters and turtles and such, but the way the eyes and mouths can move around and ''still'' be flat is unnerving. This was improved a good bit with interactive-Stitch in the ''very'' short-lived “Stitch’s Supersonic Celebration” but the rest of the show sucked so bad that the whole thing was scrapped within a few weeks.