Artist recreates hyper-realistic versions of beloved Disney characters
Disney characters have been realistically recreated in humans, all thanks to AI.
Digital artist Hidreley Leli Diao, from Brazil, has reimagined characters such as Moana, Ariel, Prince Eric, Aladdin and many more.
The hyper-realistic images were generated using “Photoshop and three mobile applications, FaceApp, Gradiente and Remini.”
Hidreley, who is a contributing writer for Bored pandasaid: “With the rise of AI-assisted art generation, there are virtually (no pun intended) any boundaries for digital art, you just have to be creative and know how to lead the blind hand of the machine.”
With over 346,000 followers, this isn’t the first time Hidreley’s AI designs have gone viral. Rather, he created real-life versions of Simpsons characters.
So can you guess who these Disney characters are?
1: He swept a girl off her feet
This Disney character was introduced to fans in 1989. He fell in love with the girl who saved him from drowning, but she disappears. With only her beautiful voice as a guide, he sets out to find her and marry her
2: A villain who lives under the sea
She took someone’s voice away for three days in exchange for becoming human. She then transforms into a young woman who hypnotizes a man to try and get him to marry her
3: She discovers ‘a whole new world’
This Disney princess has a pet tiger and her father wants her to have an arranged marriage, but she’d rather marry for love
4: A hero inspired by Greek mythology
He went from zero to hero. He lost his immortality when he was young and had to prove why he deserved to live with the gods on Mount Olympus
5: She won’t let her stepdaughter leave the house
She has two daughters and she lets her stepdaughter do all the chores. When a prince comes by looking for the mysterious owner of a glass slipper he wants to marry, she locks her stepdaughter in her attic room
6: She is the chief’s daughter
She was chosen by the ocean to return Te Fiti’s stolen heart. She uses the help of a demigod to learn how to sail across the ocean to do this and save her people
7: Scrapbooks hold a lot of value to him
His house travels around with the help of balloons and a young boy with his dog joins him. He goes on a trip to complete his late wife’s travel bucket list
8: She befriended seven helpful dwarfs
She takes a bite out of a poisonous apple given to her by her evil queen stepmother, disguised as an old hag, and passes out from eating it. She receives a “true love’s kiss” and magically wakes up
9: He was saved from death by a Disney princess
In this 1995 Disney film, his English counterparts attacked a native village, but he falls in love with the chief’s daughter. His character is loosely based on an explorer of the same name
10: She turns into an old woman
Her signature line is “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” She turns on her own stepdaughter after discovering she is the most beautiful woman in the land, and sets out to destroy her
11: He likes to spend time on his flying carpet
He showed someone special a “whole new world” outside of her palace. Her father, the sultan, doesn’t want the princess to be with him, but he tries to prove him wrong
12: She locked herself in her room because of her powers
Her philosophy is to just ‘let it go’ and she finally decides to use her powers. With her hands she can create a winter wonderland where she and her sister can build snowmen
13: His favorite place is Neverland
His sidekicks are a group of lost boys and a pixie. He stars in a film based on the novel by Scottish novelist JM Barrie. This Disney protagonist never wants to grow up and he always wants to fly far away to a magical land full of fairies, pirates and mermaids
14: She has a pet chameleon
A wicked witch stole her as a baby and locked her on top of the tower. She enjoys painting and uses her long blonde hair to help visitors into her room
15: She talks to trees
She saved her home village from outside attackers and she falls in love with one of those men before saving him from death. But their romance is doomed
16: She is the protector of the moors
She is a dark fairy with her wings cut off. After this traumatic event, she goes on a quest for revenge. She curses the king’s daughter to prick her finger on a spinning wheel spindle and die when she turns 16
17: She produces pixie dust
She has a jealousy streak and starts dying if she doesn’t get attention. This tiny Disney character can fix almost anything about the season, such as changing leaf colors with her magic