Comments on: Preview: Diego-san’s New Face

By: SenaiERI

SenaiERI — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:24:07 +0000

Looks like a good face, but the lighting in this picture makes it look cartoonish. If you can avoid the ‘astro’ look and give it a realistic human face, it would most likely be more appealing.

Actually why not use a real persons face? The first human face transplant was done a while back, why not the first human to robot face transplant? (I was being sarcastic in case you couldn’t tell)

By: Javier Movellan

Javier Movellan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:38:18 +0000

Thanks everyone. Your comments were very useful. Hopefully in a month or so we will be able to see a video of Diego’s face making facial expressions.

Best

By: whitaker

whitaker — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:09:57 +0000

I think their new design looks cute, yes maybe a little wierd, but definitely cute. Not creepy at all. I don’t think alex’s images look better, and maybe actually worse.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:32:27 +0000

@Robotbling
(yeah, but the eyes are more of an adult.)
All depends on what they want:
1. to look realistic -> most probably will be uncanny valley
2. to avoid the uncanny valley -> so design over realism

By: Robotbling

Robotbling — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:21:49 +0000

@ alex

The smoother face works pretty well, actually. But remember, most kids have some baby fat on them. I think that was the reason Hanson designed it that way.

By: CT

CT — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:48:38 +0000

The previous face looked more like an old man and this one much more baby-like and adorable.

By: Diego-san a besoin de vous pour sa bouille de bébé !

Diego-san a besoin de vous pour sa bouille de bébé ! — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:48:17 +0000

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By: feydaykyn

feydaykyn — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:07:13 +0000

It seems to me that whatever the face, as long as movements won’t feel perfectly human, it will be creepy. When the only thing Diego misses is a face, it will be worth spending time on it. But for now, it misses everything else

By: alex

alex — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:53:58 +0000

I found these issues with the face:
- it’s probably modeled after a fat kid -> it looks deformed, especially the chin and cheeks
- because of the \fat\ look it has too many wrinkles, so it looks more like a fat adult – a baby/kid face is smooth
I played with GIMP and tried to correct it a bit:
picture 1: http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=45&u=14686367
comparison picture: http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=46&u=14686367
the changes:
- smaller nose
- smaller lips
- smoother face, removing the deformation chin-cheeks
- correcting the fat look
I think this way it looks much less creepy and more like a kid.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:30:35 +0000

I think the new face is much better. It looks happier and cuter. The old face looked angry. The bubble and antennae really look good and I like the hairline on the face.
Much improved. I can’t wait to see new pictures when everything is done and he has a new face and body.