CG Covers

What do you think about the book covers that feature characters who are obviously computer generated?
Case in point:

I would have loved this cover because of it’s exotic look and bright-yet-unclashing colors. Perhaps the very pink of it appeals to my girlish side. Except that I cannot look at it without noticing the character’s blank stare and it kinda ruins it for me.

For the curious, here’s the book summary from Amazon.com:

Ai Ling is past the age when most girls in the kingdom of Xia have married and borne children. The gods, it would seem, have a different destiny in store for her, one that begins to reveal itself when her father travels to the Emperor’s Palace and fails to return. Ai Ling is determined to find him and destroy his captor, a corrupt advisor who has unnaturally extended his life by feeding on the souls of others. On her journey, which is rich in action but a little slight on character development, Ai Ling meets Chen Yong, a young man of mixed race who seeks the truth of his birth and faces a variety of predators, both demonic and sexual.

I suppose the person on the cover is Ai Ling then (a hypothesis supported by her fighting stance). I have to admit it’s a really well done image — if it weren’t for the look.

What are your thoughts on the matter? Do you pay any attention to the characters depicted on covers? To the looks on their faces? What do you think of CG images?

This book will be released on August 24, 2010.
Preorder at Amazon.com
Preorder at Bookdepository.co.uk