Hagrid, I think, makes a lot of people feel warm and welcome. They made us laugh a lot, or we felt heard around them. We see it with his gentleness with animals and because he is, of course, essentially Harry’s adoptive parent.Īs things often go, it’s sometimes hard to remember the specifics of what our favorite people did, but we don’t forget the feeling they left in us. His single most distinguishable personality trait is his compassion. He’s been there since the beginning, always bringing the quirk. More than anything, they’re a window into the minds of the designers playing around with AI tools right now, seeing what those tools have to offer.Everyone’s favorite character in Harry Potter is not Hermione, Snape, Dumbledore, or Luna Lovegood-it’s Hagrid. Unlike one of the most popular AI art experiments on social media these days, the “What if Wes Anderson directed Star Wars” (or any other franchise movie) fad, these aren’t really “What if?” prompts, they’re just visual experiments and AI test cases. Very few of them really offer a thoughtful alternate universe option that even the most hardcore fans would want to explore. Image: Nikki V./Īs with any art contest, there are some real gems in the gallery, and some duds. went in a different direction from everyone else by putting her Harry Potter characters in the world of The Hunger Games. Put together, they offer up a current portrait of the state of AI art, and how much it relies on copycatting existing artists (some of whom have filed a class-action lawsuit to protect their work from AI infringement), on detailed input to get a desired result, and on a specific, imaginative direction from the creator, in order to generate something different from everyone else’s images exploring the same prompt. And a great many of the images, coming from the same AI engines, don’t look distinctive or specific, and tend to blur together.
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Others, in the signature Midjourney photorealistic style, are such literal, exact renderings of Warner Bros.’ existing movie versions of these characters that they barely feel like artistic choices were being made. Many of these images have visual limitations and errors, especially when it comes to rendering mouths and hands. The results are worth exploring in part because they use a range of different AI tools, and they clearly show the benefits and limitations of those tools.
In total, the contest received nearly 650 entries. There is also a wide variety of anime-influenced designs, from a more Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water approach to a chibi Dragon Ball Z piece, among many, many, many others. The contenders came from all over the world, putting Harry Potter characters in Aardman Studios-style claymation, The Matrix, a Clint Eastwood-esque Western, the DC Snyderverse, and even Peaky Blinders. In this case, we thought: what if Harry Potter was filmed as a completely different genre.”Ī gallery of all the entries is publicly available online, and it makes for some fun - if sometimes repetitive or deeply uncanny - exploration. “Our latest Fast 50 data shows there’s a growing demand for generative AI skills,” he said, “so we wanted to create a contest that will let our freelancers experiment with powerful AI tools and see how they can use them to generate things we’ve never seen or thought about before. In a press release announcing the winners, communications manager Marko Zitko said the contest was meant to push the site’s freelancers-for-hire into experimenting with new AI art generation tools. (Or in Voldemort’s case, as a zombie.) Image: Rabbi Ali/ The winner, Bangladesh designer and web developer Rabbi Ali, put Harry Potter characters in The Walking Dead, imagining them as victims of a zombie apocalypse. The Star Wars mashup images were submitted by Abderrahmane B., an Algerian artist and graphic designer who earned runner-up status in the contest. These images are from ’s Harry Potter Reimagined competition, a worldwide contest that specifically asked entrants to use AI tools to generate images of Harry Potter characters in alternate settings.
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