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Avatar Trailer: hmm, if Cameron breaks the uncanny valley, will the next boundary be that of plausibility? Avatar may look 'real', but will we buy human speech and emotions coming out of faces that are not 'human'?  As Pixar proves time and time again, once you get past the "Gee Whiz" factor of new technology, you return to "Can you tell me a story?".  Pixar and general animated features couch anthropomorphic actors in fully imaginary worlds.  We accept the rules of that world because it all fits.  But if you cross-breed it with filmed reality, the rules of this world apply.  And it's hard for us to accept as truth a character's bad expressions, when compared to a living, breathing actor (For reference, watch almost all mixings of puppetry and animation with live actors in the 1980's).

It's a neat step:  True 'photorealism' in CGI films.  But once that hill is climbed, there's still miles to go…

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