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I once talked to a painter who painted stunning portraits. He said that it took him less than a day to paint the portrait but then days to make the eyes and mouth believable.

I confirmed. Even when doing sketch, the key thing to get right is the eyes.

I agree, just look at the chin of the blue background face at 7:00. They've just dug a deeper valley.

But it works so well for stills that I could imagine it taking over fast fashion catalog shots: the nameless manufacturer/designer back-end provides basic pictures (with a lighting reference ball conveniently in frame), front-end brand/store chain/online shop composes in a cgi face from their brand identity library if they don't feel like keeping the of supplied.

I think that means we're still on the far side of the uncanny valley

With increased use of fillers/botox/surgery in the cosmetics industry, the real world and the uncanny valley will converge somewhere in the middle.