The Uncanny Canyon/Valley: Good for Fiction Writing and 90s Grunge Music Videos (Video Blog ep 049)

There’s a strange phenomenon in the world of visual character creation—puppetry, animated cartoons, robotics—where the more closely a character resembles a human, the more sympathy that character elicits and the more compassion we give it…until a certain point. This gap is called The Uncanny Canyon.

But how does this concept work in fiction? Here, I answer that very question.