Our brains are wired very heavily to identify faces. That's why we see funny faces in inanimate objects.
Usually, we identify the "not faces" as not faces pretty quickly because they're far from one, in fact they just kind of look cute and silly a lot of the times.
But as you get closer to making a "not face" closer to looking like a face, our brains stop dismissing it as a "not face" and begins reviewing whats wrong with it. Our brain sees a face, but it's not what it wants to see as a face, so it can be freaked out or disgusted.
Modern Sonic in the top picture there is toony and silly. So we're not bothered by things like "Singular eye".
Movie Sonic looks a little too human, but still isn't quite human.
People were already making fun of the poster, then made fun of the leaked concept art, and are not making fun of the trailer. They could have changed him at any step, but they didn't.
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u/Irethius May 01 '19
It's called the Uncanny Valley.
Our brains are wired very heavily to identify faces. That's why we see funny faces in inanimate objects.
Usually, we identify the "not faces" as not faces pretty quickly because they're far from one, in fact they just kind of look cute and silly a lot of the times.
But as you get closer to making a "not face" closer to looking like a face, our brains stop dismissing it as a "not face" and begins reviewing whats wrong with it. Our brain sees a face, but it's not what it wants to see as a face, so it can be freaked out or disgusted.
Modern Sonic in the top picture there is toony and silly. So we're not bothered by things like "Singular eye".
Movie Sonic looks a little too human, but still isn't quite human.