Fantastic piece! The Pinocchio nose example really nails how imperfecton gives animation soul. What's wild is that modern animators actually have to deliberately add 'imperfections' back in now throgh motion blur or frame stutters to avoid the uncanny valley effect. There's probably something evolutionary here about how our brains process subtle irregularities as markers of life.
Thank you! That’s an interesting point. Perfection is so foreign to us that animators actually have to manufacture “mistakes”. Kinda like how movies and shows are still recorded on 30fps.
The evolutionary aspect seems to make a lot of sense the more I think about it.
Fantastic piece! The Pinocchio nose example really nails how imperfecton gives animation soul. What's wild is that modern animators actually have to deliberately add 'imperfections' back in now throgh motion blur or frame stutters to avoid the uncanny valley effect. There's probably something evolutionary here about how our brains process subtle irregularities as markers of life.
Thank you! That’s an interesting point. Perfection is so foreign to us that animators actually have to manufacture “mistakes”. Kinda like how movies and shows are still recorded on 30fps.
The evolutionary aspect seems to make a lot of sense the more I think about it.