Disney Video on Ending the "Uncanny Valley" With Eye Study

What?! Disney does research?! Of course they do. Here's an incredibly boring video explaining how they address the dreaded "dead-eye" in animation. It's pretty simple, really - just "reconstruct[] the shape of the visible components of the eye[!]"  Duh. You can read the paper if you want, or sit through the 3+ minutes of video to get it.

I'm not sure if I could recreate the study myself (I say this after totally botching a simple measurement to fit curtains to my window... Why is that so hard for me?!?! #*$&#*&! It's a flipping rectangle, for goodness sake!!!)  So potential eyeball test subjects are off the hook...for now...(mwahahahaha..)


Here's a link to the paper:
http://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/high-quality-capture-of-eyes/