3D Artist Lukáš Hajka Crossing the Uncanny Valley and Freaking Me Out
15 July 2015
Some of my Autodesk colleagues sent me into a daytime nightmare feeling simply with a URL to a web page in my email. On the web page in Google Chrome of browser with WebGL you see a 3D shaded head model and as you move you curser the model updates. Slovakian 3D artist Lukáš Hajka developed the shaders and in my opinion a 3D model with this amount of realism is crossing the uncanny valley and truly convinces you it is a real person in the image when it may not actually be.
Check out the examples and move your mouse around to see the model update, if you dare.
http://alteredqualia.com/xg/examples/deferred_skin.html
Here is the interview with Lukas http://stories.chaosgroup.com/Lukas-Hajka/
The possibilities of webGL based shaders and 3D are mind blowing.