Rolling Safari is a series of animations produced to use as trailers for Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film / Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart 2013. This work exemplifies creators’ sense of humor, sensibility for motion, and knowledge of a particular digital technology in deforming virtual objects into spherical forms. DAHRC Researcher MJ Truong produced a sketch of the puffy animals in class upon being introduced to the work.  Her blog features her 5-minute 3D sketch.   What happens if similar motion of rolling occurs to real living animals?  

Compared to the animation, rolling motion of the real animals offer mixture of cute, sad, and funny emotions.  Knowing that the animals are real and not the idealized cartoon characters triggers viewer’s concerns for their well being.

Reality is much more complex than idealized cartoon figures.  Perhaps this is the reason the phenomenon of Uncanny Valley occurs.