Aki Ross (CGI girl in bikini)
Created by Hironobu Sakaguchi for Square Pictures, Aki Ross was the forefront of an emerging digital character creation. She was built with intent to be starring in mutliple roles that crossed many different artistic boundaries, from movies to games, and was conceived to be as human and realistic as possible.
Part of the creation process that makes her so unique is the becoming awareness of the Uncanny Valley.
The Uncanny Valley was a proposition introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 that was a reflection on a psychological tendency amongst people to become repulsed by humanoid creations that looked "too" human, but were not. Basically put, robots and CGI people look cute and approachable to a point of visual cognitive self-similarity at which point they instinctively trigger a psychological reaction of strong repulsion. Once past this valley, the object becomes positive and approaches human empathy levels.
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