Tuesday, 8 December 2015

The Uncanney Valley Pt.5:Tin Toy

Who can say that Toy Story 1 wasn't a visual masterpiece?
…Besides him .

Today I'm not talking about Toy Story though. We're going back before Toy Story even existed. Im going to be talking about the short animation that inspired Toy Story. A 1988 animation by the name of Tin Toy. Its an animation simply about a tin toy. But he isn't the only character in this. The tin toy is confronted with something that looks kind of like a baby with wrinkles.
Throughout the entire animation this character is making incredibly unnatural movements that aren't humanlike at all. But this was made in 1988, a time when 3-d animation was still incredibly cutting edge and high budget. So I'm mostly willing to forgive the unintentional creepiness of the model. 

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