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Maybe I'm blind, but I didn't know Tarkin was CGI until someone told me several days after I'd seen the film.

• melling 10y ago
  Most of the people here have convinced themselves that they could tell and it was awful. However, I bet if there was some sort of scientific comparison, a lot fewer people would guess right.
  • cairo_x 10y ago
    Perhaps more interesting are the people who can't understand that their own perceptual blind-spots are not universal standards. This is especially interesting in the social realm, but I think what makes this example so interesting is it may fall somewhere in between (physical and social.)
  • basch 10y ago
    I am willing to bet you would get different results if you broke the people up into groups of people who watch eyes and people who read lips. I think the eyes were way more convincing than the lips. People who lip read could tell something was off. I also wonder if it would work better if they superimposed human lips onto the cgi face.
  • sssilver 10y ago
    My wife has never seen the original trilogy, and she exclaimed "Is he CG??" 200ms after grand moff's face was on the screen. Come on guys, both characters were deep in the uncanny valley.
    • pkroll 10y ago
      That may well be true... but the uncanny valley isn't the same for everyone. Tarkin looked great to me. For the two seconds she's on screen, Leia looked fine, if oddly happy given the situation. I'm guessing there's a LOT of variance between people's perception of the uncanny valley.