That looks nothing like Alan Rickman. It’s what you would expect from AI with the prompt “man with long, oily black hair framing his face, gaunt cheeks. The face is too model-like, another AI characteristic from being trained more heavily on faces of people considered to be conventionally attractive.
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Regarding Alan Rickman, it is entirely possible that Rickman’s estate chose not to approve the use of his likeness for the project - in which case the face was changed to look similar but not him.
That may be the case. But most of the art looks like the respective actors.
It’s just alarming because the simpler explanation that fits all of the inconsistencies is an AI filter used extensively throughout the playfield. With varying results on quality and details.
It’s absolutely using a Stable Diffusion model for most of the playfield. All of the weird architectural elements/border and light patterns fit those models to a T. I’d wager that the vast majority of this art package uses generative AI in some shape or form.
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Last one for today :
I found out that there are multiple versions of the Hogwarts castle, so some details that I claim are missing (like the tower) is not a valid point. The good news is that I found the original photo, for an even better comparison. (I’ll do that soon)
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Typically when this happens you can’t even use a lookalike. This is why, for instance, Tom Hanks is not anywhere to be seen on Apollo 13 except as a space helmet.
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I wonder what the review process was for this. It seems as if whoever was in charge of using AI didn’t care or didn’t notice that it introduced so many artifacts and reduced quality. Either of which would be a reason for them to not have the final say on the art.
Not that this disclaimer should matter, but I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, and my wife and I were very excited about this release. It doesn’t feel good as a fan to see something like this done. I’d much rather have straight up photoshop mashup than the AI filter on top of the art.
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In which case, Snape should just be absent from the art, instead of looking somewhat like him, but not enough.
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The artists website could offer some insights. References to NFTs and crypto and digital painting but no mention of AI. Their portfolio doesnt scream “this person would be perfect to do a Harry Potter playfield!” but I’m no art director. It may be possible they were hired because theyre good at AI, which is probably cheaper than other methods?
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Recent JJP tables are closer to modern slot machines stylistically so it makes sense they would use sub par and lazy art
I’m pretty curious about the studio approval process too, just given my experiences.
Predator is being launched tomorrow, and as the artist for that I’m a little hesitant to be overly personal in my thoughts about the other games out now.
I don’t personally use generative AI in my work, and I’m not a fan of it in general.
I’m uh, not a JK Rowling supporter. Nothing personal towards JJP, I just won’t be putting money in a machine she’s involved with since she uses her money to support causes I have strong disagreements with.
I’m not really interested in picking sides though, I’m for any and all cool pinball, from any company. I’ve said nice things about Dune and King Kong, they both look cool, I’m looking forward to getting the play them at some point.
I will say that Disney went over all the Predator art closely, asked for changes to poses even, and were way more involved than it feels like this got. My experience with them has been that they go over everything with the level of analysis this thread has seen.
I can’t see them approving art with the wrong number of fingers. Not that I would ever submit that.
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My guess is that they used an open source or maybe even self-hosted model to avoid running into issues with copyright flags. An IP as well known as Harry Potter might reject prompts with the bigger models which are better at avoiding the classic mistakes, like wrong number of fingers etc.
+1 to this. Ive said it elsewhere and ill say it again, the number of people expressing this sentiment is surprising, and heartening, to me!
(No shade to those who dont feel this way. For a lot of people pinball is just pinball. Not trying to stir up a fuss either. AI, IP, JK… its tough pleasing everyone)