John Martz

Uncanny!

My article on Pixar and the Uncanny Valley seems to have been mildly popular on the Internets.  It’s been picked up by everyone from Cartoon Brew and Comicon to Roy Disney himself. 

And what most people seem to be pointing out is something that I ignored entirely: that the perfect contrast to _The Incredibles_’ character design is its direct box-office competition: Robert Zemeckis’s _The Polar Express_.

Comicon.com has this image of the movie’s main character, which shows how nightmarishly corpselike and unnatural looking the characters are.... 

But forget about the boy for a moment and check out that _elf_!

If that doesn’t give your children bed-wetting night-terrors, I don’t know what will…