# What elements create the uncanny valley and what might be its opposite?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2015, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-elements-create-the-uncanny-valley-and-what-might-be-its-opposite/721874 "2015-06-07T09:45:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-elements-create-the-uncanny-valley-and-what-might-be-its-opposite/721874/21 "2015-06-10T08:26:54Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> The hair is wrong, too: It’s too stiff.

Naah, looks about right to me. I can tell from the [del]pixels[/del] texture and having seen a lot of [del]shops[/del] lions in my time…

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-elements-create-the-uncanny-valley-and-what-might-be-its-opposite/721874/22 "2015-06-10T13:22:41Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> I couldn’t tell for sure, so I just said cgi as a convenient label that folks could probably use to correctly identify the pic I was referencing. That seems to have worked, at least in your case. 🙂
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> I agree the eyes are what’s most ghastly about it. The rest is OK by comparison.

I think you’re right about the eyes. But it didn’t look creepy to me; just very sad.

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