Also in the original trilogy, he took muppets and made them into realistic characters that people cared about, in the new trilogy he used computer technology to intentionally make cartoon looking and acting characters that had no development, or in fact, reason to be in the story at all, other than to try to appeal to children maybe?

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One of the steepest challenges for computer animators and game developers is crafting realistic human characters without dropping their audience off the proverbial cliff of the uncanny valley.

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Tessellation allows game developers to take advantage of the GeForce GTX 400 series GPUs' ability to increase the geometric complexity of models and characters to deliver far more realistic and visually compelling gaming environments.

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As you can see from this trailer, the LEGO games continue to push the boundaries of realistic graphics when it comes to the backdrops for these LEGO characters.

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Yet Martel tries to have it both ways, attempting to construct a rich reality by accretion of ordinary and realistic detail, while stacking the narrative deck so rigorously that the characters evaporate into symbols almost upon their appearance.

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Mr. BRAY: Well at this point, the main thing they're trying to do is figure out how to make the games more visually realistic in terms of the movements of objects, in terms of the movements of characters.

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Characters look like live-action actors, and their movements and emotions have a realistic, almost filmlike quality.

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