Her blinks stutter a little, but the effect as she follows your cursor around is rather unsettling.
There's another good example on the main homepage for that site, MotionPortrait.com.
~grin~ And guess what? They're demo-ing at SIGGRAPH too. Small world today, isn't it?
On a similar note, have a look here.
Raises an interesting question that I've touched on before: if the UV effect is a product of humanlikeness, is the eeriness that this dog provokes the same thing, or something else? In a broader sense, does the UV effect happen when any member of category X is almost but not quite X? And therefore, are we looking at something just a simple as a reaction to a glitch in categorisation?
With thanks to Matthew at Culture Kills for the links.
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