History UnintentionalUncannyValley / AnimatedFilms

** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': Turbo, the lead character in ''Turbo Time'', is a game character that's human, but [[InvokedTrope due to the graphic limitations of his 8-bit game]], he has grey skin, an oversized head, bright yellow teeth (which are all exactly the same size and shape, and perfectly straight so that they all seem to be one piece), glowing, sunken yellow eyes ringed with dark circles, a pudgy body, and skinny limbs, giving him the appearance of a zombie. No wonder his game lost popularity when ''Roadblasters'' arrived.

*** An intentional example in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'': when Shrek seemingly wakes up from a nightmare about ogre babies, Puss and Donkey have ogre baby heads, with the baby-headed Donkey calling "Da-da" in a deep, unsettling voice as the camera closes in on him. It cuts back to Shrek ''actually'' waking up.

** An intentional example in ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'': Dave, when posing as Dr. Octavius Brine, makes some movements that are impossible even for a cartoony human, like walking on the ceiling, leaning forward almost to the ground, and stretching his arms to extreme length. These all indicate his true identity, but the humans are still fooled by his appearance.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'':
** The animation itself deliberately has this, as it's CG-animated but much of the movie is animated on twos with no in-betweens (rather than most CG movies, which have more naturalistic animation with tweening and motion blur). The end result is that the film closely resembles traditional animation or, indeed, a comic book, giving it a very distinct look from most other films. Reactions tend to vary depending on the viewer, but the vast majority have praised the film's unique style, so it's safe to say that the negative aspects were averted.
** This is also invoked with the three [[NonStandardCharacterDesign non-standard]] Spider-People. Spider-Ham is a {{Toon}} who uses ToonPhysics in a realistic world, Peni Parker is an {{Anime}} schoolgirl who has deliberately LimitedAnimation, and Spider-Man Noir is a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome permanently black-and-white character]] who's always given heavy shading even in broad daylight. All of these characters are individually appealing, but put them alongside more traditionally CG characters and the result is [[https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/wRHFqxpxk00Z6ium1rsDb1gqh3g=/0x0:1777x744/1200x800/filters:focal(724x143:1008x427)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62693936/MV5BMTgxODE5MDgyOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzkyODI4NjM_._V1_SX1777_CR0_0_1777_744_AL_.0.jpg pretty damn uncanny]]--intentionally so, to enforce the idea that they don't belong in this universe.
** Even Kingpin invokes this, as hilarious as his ridiculously [[TopHeavyGuy bulky body]] is juxtaposed to his tiny head. [[https://fsmedia.imgix.net/61/b0/d4/eb/ebab/41f0/a27c/be0bf94a9ea5/spider-verse---spider-people-voice-talentjpg.jpeg?auto=format%2Ccompress&h=675&w=1200&crop=edges&fit=crop Compared to other characters]] (or RealLife people), he's a freak of nature.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''
*** The producers intentionally dialled down the realism of Fiona's skin, because the animators reportedly felt a bit like they were animating a corpse. Despite this, she still looks rather... off thanks to the technology constraints of the time period. This also applies to most of the other human characters in the film.

** Pixar has this for the human characters in its early films (from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' to ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''), but they worked around it by avoiding direct shots of them, so a major reason for some strange settings was to feature characters who would look less odd as CG characters. The human cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' are probably the most realistic, but they avoided the Valley by having cartoonish proportions. In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' they try to avoid it, but there are some people who found the live-action scenes deeply disturbing. The CG background and cheap props only make it worse, particularly in comparison to the detailed post-apocalyptic wasteland (which possibly explains why they've never done it again since). They managed to avert it by the time ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' came out.

*** The producers intentionally dialled down the realism of Fiona's skin, because the animators reportedly felt a bit like they were animating a corpse.

* If ''The Spirits Within'''s CG is off-putting, then ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' is even worse, especially since it's [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII beloved characters]], known for their stylized, action-figure-like appearances who are getting the uncanny treatment.

** Up to 2006, the studio's animation was pretty infamous for this. This is very clear for [[http://caps.pictures/199/8-antz/full/antz-disneyscreencaps.com-8696.jpg the characters in]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' deliberately sweeps the valley to induce fear.
** The human characters ''mostly'' avoid it, considering that they aren't very realistic, but they are realistic enough to make the ragdoll versions of themselves fall into this trope. In general, taking emotion and soul out of a face is a keen way to achieve the Uncanny Valley, so in this case taking out one of the most expressive parts of the face, the eyes, was a good strategy.
** The stop-motion in the Other World is slightly ''off'', doing things like having single frames where background objects suddenly jump around, just enough to be unnerving.
** The [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/ranft3.jpg moving men]] at the start are almost as stiff and horrifying as the Other Mother.
** Mr. Bobinsky has blue skin, freakish long legs and a big gut, and he's supposed to be a normal human. There's some justification, as the background information states he was part of the UsefulNotes/{{Chernobyl}} clean up crew, which may explain his appearance.
** As the Other Mother's illusions start wearing off, the Other Father begins looking increasingly melty (for lack of a better word). And that's without mentioning the Other Mother's [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQQHbfSkKVGa_YZzga8uECth0uKC5s--YxptDpYH-HRvTiyhhbm true form]].
%% ** Most of the animated version is pretty kid friendly. However the main reason that Coraline was so frightening was because of the novel. Its readers had imagined the story as a LiveActionAdaptation. Imagine Creator/TeriHatcher. Now imagine her with her eyes ripped out and abnormally large black shirt buttons sewn into the still bloody sockets.

* Creator/StudioGhibli:
** The Great Forest Spirit from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' has a face that's way too [[https://i.gifer.com/78Q.gif human-like]] for comfort. In profile, it eerily resembles [[https://miro.medium.com/max/996/1*YtdXFJb23uAmesCBk8_UCQ.gif a headless deer]]. This seems to be an invoked example, to emphasize how [[PhysicalGod otherworldly]] the creature is. Still, its EldritchAbomination transformation manages to be ''less scary'' than its deer form.
** ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' invokes it with [[https://steamusercontent-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/923671396601785901/BB992B0BF2D239E42E36F872A06B7016474ADC6E/?interpolation=lanczos-none&output-format=jpeg&output-quality=95&fit=inside%7C1024%3A552&composite-to=*,*%7C1024%3A552&background-color=black passengers]] on the AfterlifeExpress. No-face deserves special mention. Just looking at that blank expressionless face on the pale, ghostly body is enough to give you the willies. [[https://media.giphy.com/media/ayMW3eqvuP00o/giphy.gif Observe]], or maybe even worse when he becomes monstrous and gains a [[https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-180c0ccfb8701bae669de8177a0b01a0 mouth full of teeth and bulbous body]]... ''but his mask-like face stays the same''. Hell, ''Spirited Away'' invokes this ''everywhere'', from the anamorphic animals to the "regular" humans [[https://www.filmindependent.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/SpiritedAway_FeaturedImage.jpg who look completely alien]] compared to Chihiro, the justification being that most of them are spirits.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'': Many of the human characters are [[rotoscoped]], while the monsters, aliens and other sentient creatures are not, occasionally invoking this trope. Standout examples are the title character Harry Canyon [[https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/2016/10/26/heavy-metal/03-heavy-metal-harry-canyon-taxi-percy-rodriguez-john-candy-don-francks-richard-romanus-eugene-levy-joe-flaherty-harvey-atkin-susan-roman-richard-romanus-caroline-semple/ smiling]], and the [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YGVLM2i9n6o/S6aqHHLb_VI/AAAAAAAAFDo/S45x8YHJ7z4/s400/Untitled-9.jpg closeup shot]] of Captain Skip's terrified face being more unsettling than the foes he encounters.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}'' movies mostly avoid this as they feature inhuman-looking, semi-robotic beings. Two odd examples stand out though. In ''Mask of Light'', Tahu's (supposedly metal) mask wobbles like flesh as he dives into a chasm, making it look like he wears exposed tendons and veins over his face. And in ''The Legend Reborn'', all the characters have not only rows of uniform, dirty, keyboard-like teeth, but a second layer of teeth over their regular teeth acting as faux-lips, as well as a prominent ear-to-ear jawline on their metal skull that renders almost all their expressions moot. When they emote or talk, it's like they have three stacks of jaws within each other, one of which is disturbingly human and none of which work convincingly.

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' had a better frame rate than the shorts and series but the characters (particularly the Jimmy and the adults) can still look off-putting. Their designs are plastic like and the humans look more disturbing than the Yokians.

** The stop-motion in the Otherworld is slightly ''off'', doing things like having single frames where background objects suddenly jump around, just enough to be unnerving.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' is yet another early, but intentional Disney example. The film seems to mostly avert this due to its simple and cartoony style compared to most Disney animated features, but it’s invoked with the disturbingly realistic Horus/[[TheIlluminati Illuminati]]-like eye that appears during the already creepy “Pink Elephants on Parade” segment when the belly dancing elephant dissolves. Made especially jarring when comparing this to anything else in the film.

* Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' is a fine (if [[TastesLikeDiabetes disgustingly cute]]) [[http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/CDDMSheets/DarlaMS01.gif 2D design]], but [[http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/Maquettes/DarlaTurnaround.jpg as a physical maquette]], not so much.

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' had a better frame rate than the shorts and series but the characters still look hideous. Their designs are plastic like and the humans look more disturbing than the Yokians.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' suffers from this problem. The character designs resemble humans, but they also have fat, squat chin, a rounded cranium and a sloped, nearly flat nose. This design didn't [[BoxOfficeBomb appeal to audiences]].

** The producers of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' intentionally dialled down the realism of Fiona's skin, because the animators reportedly felt a bit like they were animating a corpse.
*** A more intentional example in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' when Shrek seemingly wakes up from a nightmare, Puss and Donkey have ogre baby heads (pictured above), with the baby-headed Donkey calling "Da-da" in a deep, unsettling voice before it cuts back to Shrek ''actually'' waking up.

** The characters on ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', particularly in the case of main character Oscar having the face of Creator/WillSmith... [[InkSuitActor on the body of a cartoon fish]].

*** Miguel's skeleton transformation due to staying in the Land of the Dead for far too long. Though played for humor at first, it can get rather disturbing after it takes further effect, especially when it’s 95% complete prior to getting sent home with Imelda and Héctor’s blessing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'': While it mostly averts it by having its characters more stylized and cartoonish, Tintin himself has a more realistic face, and is thus more off-putting for not looking fully lifelike.

** The producers of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' intentionaly dialled down the realism of Fiona's skin, because the animators reportedly felt a bit like they were animating a corpse.

[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adventures_tintin_disneyscreencapscom_4363.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:In some shots, Tintin's face is too realistic and detailed in his [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin Movie]].]]

** ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'': The way Quasimodo is made to look UglyCute without subverting the original premise seems to be due a to clever, deliberate {{aversion}}: Draw all the characters in a fairly realistic way, draw Quasimodo as very deformed in the same realistic way, but make him so deformed that, since he's still animated rather than real, he's left on the far side of the valley... except in-universe, of course.

** Up to 2006, the studio's animation was pretty infamous for this, promoting the phrase "Dreamworks face". This is very clear for [[http://caps.pictures/199/8-antz/full/antz-disneyscreencaps.com-8696.jpg the characters in]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}''.

** Pixar has this for the human characters in its early films (from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' to ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''), but they worked around it by avoiding direct shots of them, so a major reason for some strange settings was to feature characters who would look less odd as CG characters. The human cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' are probably the most realistic, but they avoided the Valley by having cartoonish proportions. In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' they try to avoid it, but there are some people who found the live-action scenes deeply disturbing. The CG background and cheap props only make it worse, particularly in comparison to the detailed post-apocalyptic wasteland (which possibly explains why they've never done it again since). They managed to avert it by the time ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' came out.

** Averted and then played straight with Aerith, who went through several changes during the production process as the designer (likely in some recognition of this trope) tried to make her as cute as possible. She turned out alright when [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iDDt7of-JfQ/S9b6nMTZ8HI/AAAAAAAAADQ/1YEi9T5V_og/s1600/aeris.jpg her face]] was finally revealed towards the end of the film. For the ''[[UpdatedReRelease Complete]]'' version however, they chose to update her skin and eyes with sharper graphics which if anything just [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/9/93/AerithComparison.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20090615203245 makes her look weirder]]. They even had to remove the original end-credits scene of Aerith (in spirit form) hovering over Cloud's shoulder, since it looked ''too'' creepy otherwise.

** Ada and Claire surprisingly look fine, Claire in particular actually ironically [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcTHt6ABr7JFg1hPQNHqHTfeVjJYQgCOkwGbVmQhEOfM0DZeeRJO resembles her voice actor]].

** Rude manages to avoid this trope ''somewhat'', but this is due almost entirely to his eyes being [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/b/b0/Rude_advent_children.png/revision/latest?cb=20180722232809 hidden behind his sunglasses]] for the majority of his screen time. And surely enough, the few shots in which his eyes ''are'' visible [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/2/2d/Reno_and_Rude_AC.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180722232828 plunge him straight]] [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/finalfantasy/images/7/74/Rude-without-glasses-FFVIIAC.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130127010123 into the valley]]. The fact that his bald head, chin and facial hair look almost like smooth plastic does not help matters.

** Yuffie's [[https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/square_medium/0/9133/1141811-yuffiemateriaturn.jpg face]] is [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/18ccb1a284b3cd15023211bfa21b6b10/tumblr_myphpnmwtQ1r13r6do1_500.gif too doll-like for comfort]] and certainly doesn’t make her look like she's 19-years-old.