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Those faces are deep, DEEP in the uncanny valley, but they're not falling in, they're climbing out.

Facial animation in The Normals looks even better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyhf3JmODHE

Yep. In Blink, Malcolm Gladwell mentioned a couple of researchers who have identified a huge number of individual sets of facial muscles that are used in various combinations for the entire human emotional range.

I think this software -- which is incredibly amazing -- is missing just enough of those muscles that subconsciously we're getting incomplete signals from the faces.

They are not as creepy as most other animations I've seen.

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