The original image is titled the "CGI Effect Uncanny Valley", both in reference to the sharp dip over the last few years, and also as a nod to the real "uncanny valley" - the effect that makes robots or animated characters that are clearly not human acceptable to viewers, whereas those that appear almost real appear creepy.
n addition to his film work, Leacock is a superb essayist who, eschewing the stuffiness often found in theoretical writing for the cinema, presents opinions that are readable, enjoyable, and of tremendous importance for the filmmaker/auteur of today wishing to create in a seemingly very expensive world. We have chosen four essays which, we feel, represent "the essential Leacock". All bear his copyright. They are:
S. Ikeda, T. Sato, и N. Yokoya. Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, MFI2003.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on, (июля 2003)
L. Zhuang, F. Jing, и X. Zhu. CIKM '06: Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management, стр. 43--50. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2006)
M. Taboada, J. Brooke, и M. Stede. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, стр. 62--70. Stroudsburg, PA, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, (2009)