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Woman Shows How “Harry Potter” Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics)
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When comparing books and their movie adaptations, books almost always prove to be better. One of the reasons is that a film does not always manage to convey the same imagery as a book in which emotions are blended with visuals. When reading, one can form a completely different image of a place or a character and have entirely another general feeling of a story.
When creating a film adaptation, the cast is usually chosen according to the characteristics described in a book. However, the looks are not always so precise. With that in mind, one Vietnamese woman (to her followers known as MsBananaAnna) decided to use artificial intelligence to see what Harry Potter characters would look like based on book descriptions.
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#1
Sirius Black
Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this idea to learn more about her and this project. The woman revealed that she's a 28-year-old "nerd" living in Melbourne. She has been a huge "Potterhead" since grade school. "I basically grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and remember waiting in line at midnight for the release of each book."
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#2
Fleur Delacour
#3
Nymphadora Tonks
"I came up with the idea to recreate the characters when I tried to find some fanworks of Hermione. I watched the movies and though I like Emma Watson, I always thought she was too gorgeous to be Hermione. I couldn't find any renditions of her that I thought were accurate so I ended up making her myself. People seemed to enjoy it so much that I decided to make more characters."
#4
Severus Snape
While some characters look similar to the ones one sees in the movies, others look nothing like them. For MsBananaAnna, Sirius was the one she personally liked the most. "I thought that was plucked straight from my head. Artbreeder can be pretty limiting in what you can do and can be a bit twiddly so not all of the characters came out as I wanted, but I thought Sirius came out as I imagined him! Dark and regally handsome."
#6
Lily Potter
#7
Narcissa Malfoy
The recreations of Harry Potter characters got a lot of attention on Reddit (here and here) where MsBananaAnna (or, as she calls herself on Reddit, lettuceown) posted them.
What looks are your favorites? Leave a comment and let us know!
#8
Argus Filch
#9
Ginevra Weasley
Glittery Panda 2 years ago
Not too bad, I don’t think she was casted well in the movies anyways.
#10
Cho Chang
Rabbit Carrot 2 years ago (edited)
Her name though. 🤦♀️ When every other girl has a nice / interesting / exotic name the only Asian girl has the worst most stereotypical name going.
#11
Charlie Weasley
Jayne Kyra 2 years ago
Still upset there was not more of him. He works with dragons! Dragons!! He looks handsome in this recreation, too.
#12
Lucius Malfoy
#13
Hermione Granger
#14
Remus Lupin
#15
Harry Potter
A B C 2 years ago (edited)
Really badly drawn 3D anime Harry who's been bitten by a radioactive snake.
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A perfect Nightmare 2 years ago
Isn't the eye color a bit extreme? I also want Harry to have green eyes, but couldn't it look more natural?
Jenifer Winterbine 2 years ago
Maybe, however Harry was supposed to have eyes that were startlingly green,
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Julieandthephatones 2 years ago
the eyes that's what pissed me off most in the movie!! yess he was allergic to contacts but STILL!!
Monday 2 years ago
You'd think they'd find another brand of contacts...or use cgi...considering what an important plot point the green eyes were.
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Tho Nguyen 2 years ago
The Potterhead community will never forget about Harry's eye color LOL.
Bobbie Klimek 1 year ago
Most definitely what I imagined. I love the eye color!
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Vishal Naidu 2 years ago
What the ... why are his eyes so fking green, like luminescent green? Was he part-cat or something?
Kristina H.N. 2 years ago
Harry looks like a cute girl here.. Cute girl with radioactive orb eyes.
Elora Danan 2 years ago
What girls are you look at that look like teenage boys?
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The Chosen One 2 years ago
Daniel Radcliff was actually meant to wear green contacts for the HP movies but they were really uncomfortable so they let it go
Zoey Yates 2 years ago
The eyes should be more like Lily’s. I mean, that’s what the movies and books say, right?
Jayna Balistrire 2 years ago
I’m glad they went with Daniel Radcliffe! He looks so much better
Cindy Price 2 years ago
Nope! This is not Harry. I saw him in my mind a week after the book came out. He needed to look more unloved. Sallow complexion and dark bags under his eyes. Tired. Sadder until he became happy.
Panda Dover 2 years ago
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't like this one. Weird shadow under his nose. These fluorescent eyes...
Alicia Wolfe 2 years ago
His eyes are to bright if they're to look like his mothers as it says in the books.
-Under_Ender - 2 years ago
he look's like an lien with those eye's and nobody's talking about them
Isra abdal 1 year ago
It looks like one of my classmates but without the scar n the green eyes
Ferdinand Humperdinck 1 year ago
Well, now I k ow why voldy wants him gone. Anyone seen that 50ies movie with the village where all children had glowing eyes? Looks like their prototype.
Zach Brown 1 year ago
A bit exaggerated with the eyes indeed, but "Strikingly green" none the less. It was a losing battle with film casting. However, I love this. It absolutely fits the wild hair, thin-faced boy description that I have had troubles trying to picture; due to watching the movies first. I love the turn-out, and definitely have something to go by. Well Done!
Cora Matley 1 year ago
ok, it fine or whatever (minus the glow in the dark eyes) but those glasses are 100% NOT photoshop
David Moody 1 year ago
Not bad, Daniel Radcliffe has a rounder face, and neater hair than this, and the eyes look more like emeralds than actual eyes; but then, that would give Harry Potter a more magical appearance.
David Philbeck 1 year ago
OK i like this one.. not a bad rendition.. greenest eyes i ever did see..everything is photo shopped on these characters of course..but nicely..
Sahana Rao 1 year ago
It’s the damn over-exaggerated green eyes lookin like they marbles instead. What is this, Twilight??
Nichole Davis 2 years ago
Right color irises but he did have normal pupils. These ones look like his eyes are swimming with the ghosts of his past. Lol
Zoe Humpert 2 years ago
I was looking at this and my brother asked me, "what anime are you watching now?"
Amanda Begley 2 years ago
His eyes look like those plastic gems that kids belive are real when you bring them to school in 3rd grade
Lily Possum 2 years ago
Well the book did say he had bright green eyes? 🤷♀️ and I think the scar placement was wrong in the films...I think. It's been a long time since I read them. I was in my early 20s! So I don't quite remember, but something keeps telling me that the scar was wrong.
Josiah Trent Kessner 2 years ago
I prefer Daniel radcliffe more than this mainly because the skin is way to smooth and the eyes have no pupils
Maria Davenport-Goodwin 2 years ago
they tried giving dan radcliffe green contacts but he was allergic
Gitte Scheipers 2 years ago
It’s a bit sad that in the movies his eyes are blue and not green they can use contacts
Mandi Wallar 2 years ago
I’ve never understood the clip art style lightening bolt scar. I mean I get especially early movies it was simple, even younger kids would get it was lightening, it was probably super easy to keep the continuity which would of been super important and focused on with it being on his face and stuff. Outside of that though especially fan art done by older folks who would of had plenty of time to imagine how everyone looked before the films even started out. It’s imagined something much more like the skin markings people will have after being struck by lightning but deeper like scars but with the scars inset sort of like going more down that up and out and to very fine lines at the center so it looks almost like it’s emitting light it or glowing with the very center so white but only the thinnest of lines and fading out from there. Also I always imagined it branching Off a bit more and bigger a tad than just “on his forehead” in one tiny spot
Ginny Chulkovs 2 years ago
Several times it was observed that Harry had eyes just like his mother. The eyes here do not match with Lily's. But I do like this Harry version.
Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
My mind is forever polluted with the image of Daniel Radcliffe with a thunderbolt etched into his forehead... I did NOT picture Harry to look like him as I read the first three books.
jenzhere99 2 years ago
I'm still upset that they didn't just make his eyes the vivid green as expressed multiple times in the books and movies with cgi
Elora Danan 2 years ago (edited)
According to Ginny Weasley, his eyes are supposed to be green as a fresh pickled toad. 😛
Hannah Evans 2 years ago
What's with the skin? Airbrushed celebrities don't have skin that smooth and flawless. No I don't find this accurate at all, sorry
Davida Kristy 2 years ago
Everyone in the books say Harry has Lily's eyes. Refer back to picture of Lily, and Harry's eyes look like a couple of "puree" marbles.
Sarah Lewis 2 years ago
To be fair, they did try to make his eyes green, but Daniel was allergic to the contacts so they couldn’t keep him and the green eyes. And I think he knows that on some level.
BookCrazyTeen 2 years ago
Oh god they used artbreeder for this didn’t they. I would know the little tells anywhere. I can tell by the eyes mostly because if I up the green eyes too much when I use it it looks like this. Idk, maybe they didn’t use artbreeder, it looks like it though.
Farash Panthaki 2 years ago
Now this, is what I expected in the movies. Instead, I got grey eyes. GREY!
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
He doesn’t even look human— he looks too perfect that we are beginning to reach the “uncanny valley”. What’s up with the glowing eyes? Where’s Harry’s messy hair. Why is his skin so smooth he looks like a pórteles android? Sometimes AI makes character features look inhuman.
Amanda Harper 2 years ago
What's up with the overly-glowy green eyes??? Tone down the saturation a little and then we'll talk.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Why doesn't he have any pupils? This is weird. Yeah, he's supposed to have green eyes, but he's also supposed to be a real person - not a robot.
A Ro 2 years ago
Uh....this somehow looks exactly like me, except I have grey eyes and I don't where glasses
Kriston N Megan Smith 2 years ago
Thank you Jesus, you gave him bottle green eyes. This point always annoyed me so much in the movies
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago (edited)
How, he looks like a vampire.? Nobody has glowing green eyes like that.
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#DreamSMPistheBest1 2 years ago
In the movie his eyes were grey, this is more acurate. But I've only seen one person in real life who has green eyes sooooo.....
ljbeanfield 2 years ago
They're green in the books and my aunt has eyes similar to these (more realistic tho)
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Luna Lovegood
#17
Draco Malfoy
#18
Neville Longbottom
#19
Fred And George Weasley
#20
Lord Voldemort
#21
James Potter
#22
Ronald Weasley
TheLilacButterfly 2 years ago
those eyes are boring into my soul please stop smiling like that ron!
#23
Bellatrix Lestrange
#24
Vernon Dursley
#25
Cedric Diggory
#26
Dudley Dursley
#27
Petunia Dursley
#28
Dolores Umbridge
#29
Peter Pettigrew
#30
Merope Riddle (Voldemort's Mother)
Kimberley McMillan 2 years ago (edited)
Why did the AI make wall-eyed? Was that described in the book? Book 6 isn't my fave so I've not read it enough to remember.((people have already pointed out the description that I wasn't recalling. Kinda don't need multiple comments restating the same thing))
#31
Bill Weasley
Gautam Balachandran 2 years ago
Longer hair. Earring with a fang. More cool, less dorky. Probably got confused with Percy.
#32
Minerva Mcgonagall
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
No, sorry, but even before seeing Maggie Smith in that role she was the spitting image for my personal McGonagall.
#33
Pansy Parkinson
#34
Gilderoy Lockhart
#35
Viktor Krum
Jill Sadler 2 years ago
Seriously where are everyones cheeks?! No one is fed in the books apparently. Chiseled jawlines and sunken cheeks.
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Shane S 2 years ago
Read my mind! I was thinking that the Hogwarts cafeteria must be short staffed.
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Holly Maness 2 years ago
So no Dumbledore, Molly, Arthur, or Percy, but we get Voldemort’s mom??
Riley Escobar 2 years ago
So we put Voldemort mom but not, the man with the half moon spectacles
jessica r 2 years ago
Nice try, but I don't buy it. Not all sisters look alike, but Lily and Petunia have nothing in common. And Harry is supposed to have his mothers eyes.
Monday 2 years ago
All of the faces seem to have been "crafted" from 3 molds. Standard male, standard female and wide.
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John Baker 2 years ago
Most of them look too young, and they mostly seem built on the same two or three basic face shapes.
Ray Martin 2 years ago
I really wish these were not described as being created by A.I, because artificial intelligence is not what created these. They're not much more than an identikit from a selection of features, and put together by a simple algorithm. That's why most of them look very similar.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I thought the movie casting was very well done. And don't nobody do crazy like Helena Bonham Carter!
Martha Meyer 2 years ago
Everyone's eyes are either too big or have an unnatural colour. Or both.
Patti Vance 2 years ago
most of these are too thin or too chunky to be believable as the characters. and, it seems AI has a thing for narrow/pointy chins. but, a couple of them were pretty good.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Everyone had a sharp chin? So no one in that whole universe was square jawed?
Russell Romick 2 years ago
How do any of these make the story any better? You couldn't get actors that look like this so the ones we know already fit better.
Bettina Jansen 2 years ago
That quickly got boring, unfortunately. Also, it seems that the AI used to make the faces has a block on anything that would make the characters truly ugly and it seems that the artist read the books quite a long time ago and not as often or as well as they watched the films (Voldemort without the red eyes ? Brown haired V. Dursley ?)
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
i dont know i am not much impressed. voldy is missing red eyes, wormtail looks like a mutant. some of these are just a fantasy of the author or they are just adjusted versions of the film
Tigran Sargsyan 2 years ago
Judging by the striking resemblance between these renditions and the actors, I suppose the AI was queried with charecter names and not only descriptions, so it rendered what it's learned about these characters from its source dataset imagery.
Jose Manuel Lopez 1 year ago
You're talking about Karkaroff, the durmstrang Head master
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Mine Truly 2 years ago
That uncomfortable moment when you realize there were absolutely no Black characters.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her AI images are no more "authoritative" than every reader's imagination or the way the characters were cast for the movies.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her visions of what her AI is programmed to think they look like any more than every person who read the books imagination or the movie casting.
Megan Pawlak 2 years ago
I think MANY in the wizarding world aren’t living the high life. And a LOT of characters are described as gaunt or gnarled, which doesn’t lend to plump cheeks. The Vernon and Dudley are spot on though! Mrs, Weasley, we’re she featured, would have been plump. She described MANY times as being rounder and formidable. Haha
Buzz Covington 2 years ago
Hey! I know... Hows about we run photos of the actors through five filters and call it a day, huh?
Paarth Arha 2 years ago
It rather look like “morons” Thanks to the director 🤠 for choosing the best cast , To make the potter charcters fiil the bill of this roles
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
Some of them look the same as the movie (similar enough) and chances are some of the actors were cast for their tallent as opposed to looking exactly like the characters. I know that Dan Radcliff had an alergic reaction, which is why they didn't use contacts. Though, I did wonder why they didn't just chance his eye colour in post production. p.s.I think these are AI created images, which is why Tonk's 'shaved head' look look like a comb back style
Firefoxy3121 2 years ago
The movies messed up hermione as the main one I remember. She was supposed to be pretty much average, not too pretty, not too ugly. They went to the top end of the scale on some and only a few characters look how they should
Terry Godson 2 years ago
Regardless how they actually looked, we grew up with them, the existing cast
Douglas Mock 2 years ago
You do understand that you're NOT an artist if the art is by an AI - right?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
Unless the AI output was post-edited in Photoshop, I 100 percent agree with you. Programs like Art Breeder make it extremely easy to generate portraits like this based on descriptions and keywords the user provides.
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Merrilyn Wasson 1 year ago
Impressed! The painter did not set out to make juvenile 'collectors cards ' of every character. She chose an interesting selection and her skill is remarkable, whether we agree of not with the interpretation.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did an exceptional job casting actors, applying makeup to be consistent with the book descriptions of the characters.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did justice to the book descriptions of the characters.... quite impressed.
Chris Munroe-Martyn 1 year ago
Most of these are pretty dam horrible looking so I. Glad they went the route they did
Idiotic Bees 1 year ago
they were pretty good! they weren't exactly what i was thinking because they all do look like they need some McDonalds or Whataburger, but i do love the outcome! :)
Nieda Giles 1 year ago
Some of the people chosen to play the characters were pretty good picks if you just deprive them of bread for a month it would be spot on
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
They all look way too young, and emaciated. I'm fine with how the movie portrayed them all!
Steve Zagieboylo 2 years ago
Meh. The only one that is clearly more accurate than the movie casting is Hermione, who is supposed to have buck teeth and be a little homely, but they accidentally cast a girl who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of all time. In the books, it is Ginny who is stunningly beautiful, so I guess this artist improved on that one slightly, but still didn't get there. The artist needs to study true redheads to learn how freckles are really distributed.
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Robert Deltorik 2 years ago
This is just absurd and dumb, these characters still look like they come out of a water damaged comic strip.
Scourge McCloud 2 years ago
These are pretty close to what I saw in my head in 5th grade. It's like the artist is living inside my mind o.o
Corina Hill 2 years ago
You could poke someone’s eye out with most of the chins in these drawings. Why does almost everyone have the same jawline?
Cathy Scott 2 years ago
Fleur, Cho, and Luna were the only ones who looked like their real characters. The others, not so much. Sorry.
Valerie Witter 2 years ago
Some of these were so bad they were ridiculous. She wasted her time. I read the books too and when I saw the first movie I was blown away by how closely all the actors fit their parts.
Shelley Thibeau 2 years ago
like on Halloween or the Wizard of OZ they r all the same thing thin faced
Patricia Henderson 2 years ago
I wish they did a side by side of the character rendering and the casted actor.
Cindy Caruso 2 years ago
None of these look like what my mind pictured when I read the books. And yes I read them long before I ever saw the movies. These are completely unrealistic and what's with the weird eyes and malnourished look? Just weird
Hans Van Rooyen 2 years ago
A bit weird this....but the movies largely nailed it? Also did I miss a book that has detailed character descriptions?
Kyle Urbin 2 years ago
The reason mad eye moody isn't on here is because it's embarrassing how bad a job they did
Jason Marin 2 years ago
She should have add all of the other characters. Hagrid, Dumbledore, Trelawny, etc.
Jesse Ellyson 2 years ago
According to the book descriptions? No, according to this artist's interpretations. Some of them are pretty good. Some, not so much
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
This wasn’t done by an artist—this was done by artificial intelligence.
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Israel Martinez 2 years ago
Most of these were just like the movies .. the rest weren't too disappointing ... if I was disappointed, it would have been with the change in storylines, but not with descriptions of characters ...
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago (edited)
This was done by an artificial intelligence art generator- so not a lot of hard work involved unless they were post-edited in Photoshop. You can easily create results like this using AI programs like Art Breeder. You give the AI a number of features or descriptions and the AI will comb its databank of images to generate a portrait based on the feedback. This databank often includes portraits of famous celebrities hence why many people say that some of these characters look like celebrities. The portraits may be edited in Photoshop later. Since these are done by AI, the portraits often look what many people call “uncanny valley, meaning that they look human enough but there’s a feature like the nose or eye colour that looks too perfect or unnatural. It’s really fascinating.
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Buzz Anderson 2 years ago
Despite everyone's criticism I'd say the producers did a fairly good job of finding people to look like the books. AND this is just ONE person's idea of how they should look according to descriptions in the book.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
This was done by artificial intelligence as mentioned at the start of the thread-so, AI is the one to be “congratulated”
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Fabio Paolo Barbieri 2 years ago
I liked almost all of them (Gilderoy is too handsome, and he should have a weak chin). I don't understand why everyone is critical.
SB 2 years ago
All y'all are rude, for every complement there 25 people complaining about something rather than enjoying the art this person created for us to enjoy and discuss. Yeah everyone expects a few naysayers and hecklers but most of you people are just down right aweful. Try being nice and maybe spend as much time and energy this project took into something this creative even one time in your life. Whoever the artist is, major props, yeah a few main people are missing but I'm sure you have your reason and I give props for the mad effort this must have taken.
butt soup 2 years ago
these images were made by a computer algorithm. almost no effort was put into this at all besides selecting which features the ai should focus on then picking the best image to post. no time, energy, or creativity like you're saying.
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Eris Ea 2 years ago
This is age shaming, the older characters are too young in this...... It's like Sirius should be older.... Harry's parents were at least middle 20 when he was born and after that 11 years so it's fine to Severus, Sirius, Remus, Petigeew the Weasley family be almost in their 40's
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
I think what you write is influenced a lot by how you grew up where you live,etc. I dont know how exactly it is in Britain, for sure there are different races of people , but I would say the white race is probably stll prevalent? maybe at least at some parts and I would say even more in the 90s when she started writing the series. I dont think it was intentional. if she didnt interact much with ppl from different races she would not think about adding them to the story. Still there are a few examples of ppl from different races: Dean Thomas, the Patil twins, Cho Chang, Kingsley, then she mentions some ppl at the ministry. She later realised this under-representation and she started adding more ppl from different backgrounds. I tell you in my country you could live all your life and never meet a black person. If I wrote a story where I wanted to add a black person it would be based just on what I saw in TV, not my personal experience and I could add some stereotypes unintentionaly
Load More Replies... Shane S 2 years ago
Read my mind! I was thinking that the Hogwarts cafeteria must be short staffed.
Load More Replies... Holly Maness 2 years ago
So no Dumbledore, Molly, Arthur, or Percy, but we get Voldemort’s mom??
Riley Escobar 2 years ago
So we put Voldemort mom but not, the man with the half moon spectacles
jessica r 2 years ago
Nice try, but I don't buy it. Not all sisters look alike, but Lily and Petunia have nothing in common. And Harry is supposed to have his mothers eyes.
Monday 2 years ago
All of the faces seem to have been "crafted" from 3 molds. Standard male, standard female and wide.
Load More Replies... John Baker 2 years ago
Most of them look too young, and they mostly seem built on the same two or three basic face shapes.
Ray Martin 2 years ago
I really wish these were not described as being created by A.I, because artificial intelligence is not what created these. They're not much more than an identikit from a selection of features, and put together by a simple algorithm. That's why most of them look very similar.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I thought the movie casting was very well done. And don't nobody do crazy like Helena Bonham Carter!
Martha Meyer 2 years ago
Everyone's eyes are either too big or have an unnatural colour. Or both.
Patti Vance 2 years ago
most of these are too thin or too chunky to be believable as the characters. and, it seems AI has a thing for narrow/pointy chins. but, a couple of them were pretty good.
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Everyone had a sharp chin? So no one in that whole universe was square jawed?
Russell Romick 2 years ago
How do any of these make the story any better? You couldn't get actors that look like this so the ones we know already fit better.
Bettina Jansen 2 years ago
That quickly got boring, unfortunately. Also, it seems that the AI used to make the faces has a block on anything that would make the characters truly ugly and it seems that the artist read the books quite a long time ago and not as often or as well as they watched the films (Voldemort without the red eyes ? Brown haired V. Dursley ?)
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
i dont know i am not much impressed. voldy is missing red eyes, wormtail looks like a mutant. some of these are just a fantasy of the author or they are just adjusted versions of the film
Tigran Sargsyan 2 years ago
Judging by the striking resemblance between these renditions and the actors, I suppose the AI was queried with charecter names and not only descriptions, so it rendered what it's learned about these characters from its source dataset imagery.
Jose Manuel Lopez 1 year ago
You're talking about Karkaroff, the durmstrang Head master
Load More Replies... Mine Truly 2 years ago
That uncomfortable moment when you realize there were absolutely no Black characters.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her AI images are no more "authoritative" than every reader's imagination or the way the characters were cast for the movies.
Cynthia Kramer 2 years ago
Waste of time. Her visions of what her AI is programmed to think they look like any more than every person who read the books imagination or the movie casting.
Megan Pawlak 2 years ago
I think MANY in the wizarding world aren’t living the high life. And a LOT of characters are described as gaunt or gnarled, which doesn’t lend to plump cheeks. The Vernon and Dudley are spot on though! Mrs, Weasley, we’re she featured, would have been plump. She described MANY times as being rounder and formidable. Haha
Buzz Covington 2 years ago
Hey! I know... Hows about we run photos of the actors through five filters and call it a day, huh?
Paarth Arha 2 years ago
It rather look like “morons” Thanks to the director 🤠 for choosing the best cast , To make the potter charcters fiil the bill of this roles
Marley Nachi 2 years ago
Some of them look the same as the movie (similar enough) and chances are some of the actors were cast for their tallent as opposed to looking exactly like the characters. I know that Dan Radcliff had an alergic reaction, which is why they didn't use contacts. Though, I did wonder why they didn't just chance his eye colour in post production. p.s.I think these are AI created images, which is why Tonk's 'shaved head' look look like a comb back style
Firefoxy3121 2 years ago
The movies messed up hermione as the main one I remember. She was supposed to be pretty much average, not too pretty, not too ugly. They went to the top end of the scale on some and only a few characters look how they should
Terry Godson 2 years ago
Regardless how they actually looked, we grew up with them, the existing cast
Douglas Mock 2 years ago
You do understand that you're NOT an artist if the art is by an AI - right?
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
Unless the AI output was post-edited in Photoshop, I 100 percent agree with you. Programs like Art Breeder make it extremely easy to generate portraits like this based on descriptions and keywords the user provides.
Load More Replies... Merrilyn Wasson 1 year ago
Impressed! The painter did not set out to make juvenile 'collectors cards ' of every character. She chose an interesting selection and her skill is remarkable, whether we agree of not with the interpretation.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did an exceptional job casting actors, applying makeup to be consistent with the book descriptions of the characters.
Mike Orenstein 1 year ago
I'd say the movies did justice to the book descriptions of the characters.... quite impressed.
Chris Munroe-Martyn 1 year ago
Most of these are pretty dam horrible looking so I. Glad they went the route they did
Idiotic Bees 1 year ago
they were pretty good! they weren't exactly what i was thinking because they all do look like they need some McDonalds or Whataburger, but i do love the outcome! :)
Nieda Giles 1 year ago
Some of the people chosen to play the characters were pretty good picks if you just deprive them of bread for a month it would be spot on
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
They all look way too young, and emaciated. I'm fine with how the movie portrayed them all!
Steve Zagieboylo 2 years ago
Meh. The only one that is clearly more accurate than the movie casting is Hermione, who is supposed to have buck teeth and be a little homely, but they accidentally cast a girl who grew up to be one of the most beautiful women of all time. In the books, it is Ginny who is stunningly beautiful, so I guess this artist improved on that one slightly, but still didn't get there. The artist needs to study true redheads to learn how freckles are really distributed.
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Robert Deltorik 2 years ago
This is just absurd and dumb, these characters still look like they come out of a water damaged comic strip.
Scourge McCloud 2 years ago
These are pretty close to what I saw in my head in 5th grade. It's like the artist is living inside my mind o.o
Corina Hill 2 years ago
You could poke someone’s eye out with most of the chins in these drawings. Why does almost everyone have the same jawline?
Cathy Scott 2 years ago
Fleur, Cho, and Luna were the only ones who looked like their real characters. The others, not so much. Sorry.
Valerie Witter 2 years ago
Some of these were so bad they were ridiculous. She wasted her time. I read the books too and when I saw the first movie I was blown away by how closely all the actors fit their parts.
Shelley Thibeau 2 years ago
like on Halloween or the Wizard of OZ they r all the same thing thin faced
Patricia Henderson 2 years ago
I wish they did a side by side of the character rendering and the casted actor.
Cindy Caruso 2 years ago
None of these look like what my mind pictured when I read the books. And yes I read them long before I ever saw the movies. These are completely unrealistic and what's with the weird eyes and malnourished look? Just weird
Hans Van Rooyen 2 years ago
A bit weird this....but the movies largely nailed it? Also did I miss a book that has detailed character descriptions?
Kyle Urbin 2 years ago
The reason mad eye moody isn't on here is because it's embarrassing how bad a job they did
Jason Marin 2 years ago
She should have add all of the other characters. Hagrid, Dumbledore, Trelawny, etc.
Jesse Ellyson 2 years ago
According to the book descriptions? No, according to this artist's interpretations. Some of them are pretty good. Some, not so much
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
This wasn’t done by an artist—this was done by artificial intelligence.
Load More Replies... Israel Martinez 2 years ago
Most of these were just like the movies .. the rest weren't too disappointing ... if I was disappointed, it would have been with the change in storylines, but not with descriptions of characters ...
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago (edited)
This was done by an artificial intelligence art generator- so not a lot of hard work involved unless they were post-edited in Photoshop. You can easily create results like this using AI programs like Art Breeder. You give the AI a number of features or descriptions and the AI will comb its databank of images to generate a portrait based on the feedback. This databank often includes portraits of famous celebrities hence why many people say that some of these characters look like celebrities. The portraits may be edited in Photoshop later. Since these are done by AI, the portraits often look what many people call “uncanny valley, meaning that they look human enough but there’s a feature like the nose or eye colour that looks too perfect or unnatural. It’s really fascinating.
Load More Replies... Buzz Anderson 2 years ago
Despite everyone's criticism I'd say the producers did a fairly good job of finding people to look like the books. AND this is just ONE person's idea of how they should look according to descriptions in the book.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
This was done by artificial intelligence as mentioned at the start of the thread-so, AI is the one to be “congratulated”
Load More Replies... Fabio Paolo Barbieri 2 years ago
I liked almost all of them (Gilderoy is too handsome, and he should have a weak chin). I don't understand why everyone is critical.
SB 2 years ago
All y'all are rude, for every complement there 25 people complaining about something rather than enjoying the art this person created for us to enjoy and discuss. Yeah everyone expects a few naysayers and hecklers but most of you people are just down right aweful. Try being nice and maybe spend as much time and energy this project took into something this creative even one time in your life. Whoever the artist is, major props, yeah a few main people are missing but I'm sure you have your reason and I give props for the mad effort this must have taken.
butt soup 2 years ago
these images were made by a computer algorithm. almost no effort was put into this at all besides selecting which features the ai should focus on then picking the best image to post. no time, energy, or creativity like you're saying.
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Eris Ea 2 years ago
This is age shaming, the older characters are too young in this...... It's like Sirius should be older.... Harry's parents were at least middle 20 when he was born and after that 11 years so it's fine to Severus, Sirius, Remus, Petigeew the Weasley family be almost in their 40's
Vladimíra Matejová 2 years ago
I think what you write is influenced a lot by how you grew up where you live,etc. I dont know how exactly it is in Britain, for sure there are different races of people , but I would say the white race is probably stll prevalent? maybe at least at some parts and I would say even more in the 90s when she started writing the series. I dont think it was intentional. if she didnt interact much with ppl from different races she would not think about adding them to the story. Still there are a few examples of ppl from different races: Dean Thomas, the Patil twins, Cho Chang, Kingsley, then she mentions some ppl at the ministry. She later realised this under-representation and she started adding more ppl from different backgrounds. I tell you in my country you could live all your life and never meet a black person. If I wrote a story where I wanted to add a black person it would be based just on what I saw in TV, not my personal experience and I could add some stereotypes unintentionaly
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