Unintentional Uncanny Valley / Webcomics

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• While the Ctrl+Alt+Del characters look fine on paper, they become horrible, twisting abominations when animated.
• Many webcomics that use CGI models, such as in Poser or DAZ Studio, are subject to this. Poser simply has big problems with the Valley, since depending on the skill of the artist using it, the quality of the figure textures and morphs he/she is using (there are literally thousands of morphs and textures available for the popular base figure such as Daz3D's Victoria and Michael series and the quality is just as widely varying), and the amount of time and money he or she is willing to invest in creating panels, it can range from passable to downright horrifying.
• Suicide for Hire is a rare subversion of the logic behind Furries Are Easier to Draw. There's just something not right about the character faces...
• Part the appeal of The Order of the Stick is that it inverts uncanny valley by having cartoon stick figures who are clearly unrealistic looking while showing human qualities, which endears readers to them.
  • Arguably, the characters fall to the left of the valley, as they are cartoony enough to avoid being uncanny.
• Unintentional but Linneus from Teahouse falls into this and can end up positively frightening◊.
• The Alpha Droids of Commander Kitty are more cute than anything, though their inexpressive, jewel-like eyes can be a little creepy. But it's when they shut down that they plunge right into the valley, with their blank-eyed, corpse-like expression. Even worse is former Big Bad Zenith's breakdown, having been the most "human" of the bunch. She's later booted back up, completely devoid of any personality, with a blank, red-eyed stare to match.
• The main female lead in Komos & Goldie is this, due to not only looking like a naked golden human woman, but she's also given nipples.
• In Our Little Adventure, elves have extra-large Tareme Eyes and proportions that are just far enough off from the human baseline to make some people uneasy:
  Lenny: You look like a Disney princess tweaked out on PCP.
• One of the many criticisms of Assigned Male is that all the preteen characters look more like deformed toddlers, giving most of the strips an off-putting vibe.

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