Arcanum portraits sources

[Ol' Willy]

Since everyone likes Arcanum portraits I think it would be interesting to find the sources of these portraits. Here's first:

General Burnside


Post more if you know any

 

[Monkey Baron]

Doc Roberts

Wyatt Earp

 

[Kruno]

Doc Roberts

Wyatt Earp

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Franklin Payne

Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room with a View

 

[Ol' Willy]

John Brown Gordon

Edward Knight Collins

 

[pickmeister]

Jongle Dunne

Henry Hopkins Sibley

 

[pickmeister]

Sauce

 

[Spukrian]

Franklin Payne

Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room with a View

Awesome find... I always thought it was based on this photo but I was wrong:

 

[Narushima]

Looks like this should be updated: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/tracing/tracing6.htm

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

That set of Hardcore Gaming 101 webpages called Tracing the Influence is derived from a lengthy forum thread of the same name, but they selected only a small portion of the thread's content for inclusion in the public-oriented set of webpages. The Arcanum portraits are actually referenced in the thread.

 

[mkultra]

just made a few via AI.. need to read up about how to write that file to add them to the game + convert to crappy 256 color BMP

 

[BanEvader]

Henry Hopkins Sibley and John Brown Gordon were already covered, but I'll just leave this here anyway.

 

[octavius]

Since everyone likes Arcanum portraits I think it would be interesting to find the sources of these portraits. Here's first:

General Burnside

Imagine being one of his staff, and always be afraid that you'll slip and call him General Sideburn.

 

[Zed]

just made a few via AI.. need to read up about how to write that file to add them to the game + convert to crappy 256 color BMP

What did you use to generate those? Some look like babyfaces but some are alright

 

[mkultra]

just made a few via AI.. need to read up about how to write that file to add them to the game + convert to crappy 256 color BMP

What did you use to generate those? Some look like babyfaces but some are alright

stable diffusion. yeah need to sort out some bad ones, did it really quickly
i made around 1000 for baldur's gate and pathfinder, it has higher priority

if i get the time i can train an AI with the older portraits perhaps, make them look more in that style.

 

[deuxhero]

There have been a few attempts at that. Libtards always complained they only did white people well.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

imagine getting put in your game and being told you look like a half orc
ouch

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the orcish question does not parallel the jewish question, it parallels the german question.
image is made by a person who has a basic grasp of modern history

 

[Ol' Willy]

the orcish question does not parallel the jewish question, it parallels the german question.
image is made by a person who has a basic grasp of modern history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_question

Obviously

 

[luj1]

Franklin Payne

Daniel Day-Lewis as Cecil Vyse in A Room with a View

so i see nwn wasnt the first which ripped off portraits

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

so i see nwn wasnt the first which ripped off portraits

Ripping off images for character portraits or cover art is a venerable tradition in CRPGs and videogames more generally, as evidenced by the Tracing the Images Hardcore Gaming 101 thread I referenced in post #10.

 

[Saerain]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

the orcish question does not parallel the jewish question, it parallels the german question.
image is made by a person who has a basic grasp of modern history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_question

Obviously

I was being serious, I went over this before. Read the contents of the book, it has nothing to do with the jewish question.
in part, this was my error for not checking the Wikipedia link which has changed since I last linked to it. It's a reference to the post-WW2 German question, that is, the industrialization of Germany.

The half-orcs are germans, "the orcish question" isn't referring to "the jewish question" -- which I've seen claimed many times. The only similarity is the title itself, and there are many such titled "questions" throughout history, the content is completely different. It's referring to the post-ww2 german question of whether germany's industry should be revived and what threat it would pose to europe, which directly relates to the content of "the orcish question"
if your counterargument is "that's not victorian!", ahem, well...

I'm not sure how much more on the nose it can get than that.

I suggest reading the text yourself and seeing what conclusions you come to:
https://arcanum.fandom.com/wiki/The_Orcish_Question

Why would "the orcish question" be a parallel to "the jewish question" when the orcs aren't the parallel to the jews to begin with?

 

[Don Salieri]

Sauce

It's funny that the photographs of Sissie Chang and Tiffany Chu look closer to the in-game races than the painted portraits, which you can't tell are supposed to be different.

 

[Ol' Willy]

Read the contents of the book, it has nothing to do with the jewish question.

Irish question nigger, not Jewish