This week we had one on one tutorial with Nigel, and we were given the opportunity to present our ideas for a research topic for our critical report. I decided to write on the uncanny valley and why it is the reason hyper realistic style animations are usually avoided. I picked this because I’ve always preferred a near photorealist style in animation but I almost never see any, so I picked this topic to find out why.
Nigel told me that it is a good topic as it is properly researched, and a very common conversation in the animation academic world. He did tell me to try and find something that would make my research stand out from the many others that have been done, which is something for me to think about