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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
#16
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
Mtg Wolfie 2 years ago
I feel she was casted fair enough. You want her to look human enough (which this fails at) to be almost polite at first. Until she takes over as dictator.
Scarlett 2 years ago
Wasn’t she described as looking like a toad in the book though?
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HIROX 2 years ago
Before the movies. The Delores I had in my head was Roslyn from Monsters Inc. "always watching"
Good Luckas 2 years ago
Owkengjojdnsbjckfnj I JUST SCROLLED DOWN AND LITERALLY SCREAMED!!! PUT THIS FACE IN A HORROR MOVIE!
j robin estrella 2 years ago
she was supposed to look like a toad., I thought this looks like a psychotic leprechaun.
David Blue 2 years ago
her teeth are discusting et some toothpaste neverming get some iodine those teeth are so damn dirty
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
This made me scream laugh instantly 😆 I literally only read the comments on this one in attempts to make myself feel a lil less evil for the reaction I had. Tysm this got me over the threshold finally!!
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Sarah Britt 2 years ago
Oh great. Just what I need to see before going to sleep. Hello there nightmare fuel.
Gur Lempel 2 years ago
I can't even look at that. Disgusting, toad-like. The REAL villain of the books I swear
a random NERD (A is my life) 2 years ago
i spy with my little eye....somthing..... horrendose! R UN!!!
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago (edited)
The level of psychosis in this depiction is making me so uncomfortable I can't sit still rn.. I've never been so affected by a picture of a.. smile let's just classify it as a smile I guess.. straight "Heeeere's JOHNNY 🪓🪓" vibes but I girl don't even need the axe.
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
🤭😆 wait no..😳😬 you're greatly exaggerating.. right?? Your friend.. s**t YOU please, please confirm this is 98% exaggerated at LEAST!! Maaan I don't usually comment in emojis but I literally couldn't transcribe the reaction I had to this w just words.. oooof.
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Kylie Dowers 1 week ago
That's not a Harry Potter character. That's a cruise guest from Little Nightmares!
french banana 1 year ago
This is so accurate to the books, but Imelda Staunton's Umbridge was such a good alternative! I like both designs equally
Zach Brown 1 year ago
Perhaps a bit wide in the mouth, but of course, she was a bit of a toad, both in appearance, and politically. She could use a fly in her hair, I mean a hair bow as she was depicted as wearing. All in all, Definitely one to throw out in a hoard of Centaurs.
Megan Bebla 1 year ago
No wonder they’re scared of her whenever I see a “10 of the most hated hp characters” I know Voldemort is no.2 and umbridge is 1
Cora Matley 1 year ago
Thank you, Headmaster, for those kind words of welcome. And how lovely to see all your bright happy faces smiling up at me. [No one smiles] I'm sure we're all going to be very good friends. The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizard of vital importance. Although each Headmaster has brought something new to this historic school... [Nods to Dumbledore] progress for the sake of progress must be discouraged. Let us preserve what must be preserved, perfect what can be perfected and prune practices that ought to be prohibited. what. A. bitc-oop.
Ashley Wizner 1 year ago
When I first saw this photo I really screamed. I am so glad they did not use this person in the movie or I would have to go to a hospital from seeing that face for to long. Everyones chain reaction should be to scream. SOS IT IS UMBRIGE lol
Allex Anderson 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but that belongs in a horror movie. Art looks absolutely amazing though!!
Mandi Wallar 2 years ago
Looks like a creepy almost uncanny valley version of Bryce Dallas Howard
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
I dunno who that is & to be perfectly honest I'm already too stunned to imagine, let alone Google & confirm there's a living being that could even pass as a. 5th cousin.. twice removed
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Janeann Beers 2 years ago
She looks like a woman trying to sell you her kids girlscout cookies at a stand in front of the local medical MJ dispensary.
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
The specificity makes this 100x more powerful nbs!!
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DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
Seriously.. this is what the witch who are Hansel & Gretel MUST'VE looked like.
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Mary G 2 years ago
The actress who played her did such an awesome job she totally got me past the fact that her looks were nothing like how I pictured her from the book description. This rendering doesn't either. She looked like my ex-MIL in my imagination.
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
Aw man . No further info needed I'm so sorry & equally thrilled for you that there's an ex before MIL.. jeez.
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Denise Buzz 2 years ago
This is still not as unpleasant as I imagined her, but much closely to to the charcater than the movie. Love Imelda but she was too attractive and not nearly sinister enough.
EJN 2 years ago
Nah, she should have been a human version of that slug-like female in 'Monster's Inc', Roz.
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
Omg this the 2nd comment to say Roz I laughed even harder the 2x & I thank yu for it.
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DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
This just lit my heart & soul on 🔥🔥🔥!!! Don't get me wrong I absolutely despised her when they brought her back & promoted her but once she started crumbling like the spackle on my grandma's ceiling I was powerless to feel for her & actually liked her by the time this last season ended I mean when milk breath made her take her wig off??!!!? C'mon..
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2 years ago
i dont think shes ugly, but the yellow tone around her mouth makes me think uncanny valley
DeNasha. ReNee 2 years ago
You are truly either the most skillful bullshitter in the universe or the greatest human being to ever live.. either way you're mfn amazing, sincerely.
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Dayton MooreMonge 2 years ago
I don’t think is possible for a human to look that terrifying in real life
Lucie St-Aubin 2 years ago
I had imagined her much, much uglier, in the book she had mousy brown hair and facial feature of a toad! Ugly witch!
Emblem Bloom 2 years ago
Holy s**t Uhm Thank god this wasn’t the casting choice Nightmares for life
Gareth Baus 2 years ago
That doesn't look like a human, the actual actor actually seems like a more realistic choice.
yourgayaunt (they/she) 2 years ago
i didn't think i could hate umbridge even more, but here we are
kkathleen517 2 years ago
Nope. Nope. I just got done reading the books again and that is not what she looks like. At all. She is supposed to look like a toad and wear a little bow on top her head. And the smile isn't right either!
Caroline Driver 2 years ago
I always imagined her played by Miriam Margoyles, but she was already in the films as Professor Sprout. I'd like to see someone render Umbridge looking like Margoyles, she's a wonderful actress
Lady of the Mountains 2 years ago
Better than the movie, but the best will always be the picture of her in the chapter headings lol
Madeline Tacher 2 years ago
Who you got the toad like thing down but that is creepy. I wonder what jk was envisioning
An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago
That's terrifying... she's terrifying, so happy she's a fictional character
Hobby Hopper 2 years ago
It's hard to imagine anyone other than Imelda Staunton as Umbridge. Hers was possibly my favorite performance in all the HP movies.
Cindy Melendez 2 years ago
I always got the image of the woman from the Poltergeist movie Zelda Rubinstein
Gautam Balachandran 2 years ago
Spot on. Except for the bow on top of the head. You know, "the fly perched unwisely on the frog? "
Fabio Paolo Barbieri 2 years ago
Dolores should be fat. This lady is scary enough, but her features are too regular, and she is not carrying enough weight.
#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”
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
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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