So upon whom are the new portraits based?

Gallowglass

After @CameronTofer had long ago set the trend by modelling for Garrick in original BG1 (and carried over into BG1ee, of course), we now know that @TrentOster is the model for Dorn and @PhillipDaigle for Rasaad.

Are the portraits of Schael Corwin, Voghiln, M'Khiin and Glint also based on the likenesses of team members?

(Hmmm ... actually, Corwin looks rather familiar, although I can't quite bring to mind whom she looks like ... some well-known actress, perhaps?)

Azzara

I'm pretty sure, Glint is Andrew Foley.

AndrewFoley

Azzara said:

I'm pretty sure, Glint is Andrew Foley.

I wish.

Amber_Scott

They weren't based on any of us, afaik, but in a weird coincidence the actress we hired to voice Corwin wound up looking a lot like her. FATE!

Gallowglass

Amber_Scott said:

They weren't based on any of us, afaik, but in a weird coincidence the actress we hired to voice Corwin wound up looking a lot like her. FATE!

Thanks for explaining, @Amber_Scott.

LavaDelVortel

Is there any thread with actual portraits for those NPCs? It would be nice to see those as jpgs in the best (public) quality.

shawne

LavaDelVortel said:

Is there any thread with actual portraits for those NPCs? It would be nice to see those as jpgs in the best (public) quality.

I sense a PaintBG update approaching...

LavaDelVortel

Hah! I wish, but everything depends on @artastrophe - she's quite busy, I'm afraid, but maybe...

deltago

Amber_Scott said:

They weren't based on any of us, afaik, but in a weird coincidence the actress we hired to voice Corwin wound up looking a lot like her. FATE!

Really...

Cause I see similarities here:

Azzara

Wait, I think I've seen the portrait of the bearded guy somewhere. Just without the beard and the helmet.

Aedan

Is that @LiamEsler ?

Permidion_Stark

I'm pretty sure Schael Corwin is based on a picture of Angelina Jolie that appeared in Vanity Fair:

Gallowglass

@Permidion_Stark - no. But she does still remind me of someone-or-other whom I still can't bring to mind.

Permidion_Stark

@Gallowglass I'd lay money it is. She's had her chin pulled down to make her face look longer, some shadows and highlights have been added and her lips have been made less full, but if you look at the hairline on the top right of the picture it is exactly the same, it has just been extended over her ears. Some work has been done on the eyes but the eyebrows are in the same position.

Gallowglass

Permidion_Stark said:

@Gallowglass I'd lay money it is.

I'll take your bet. How much?

@Amber_Scott has already told us that the portrait looks like the voice-actress. Voice-acting is already quite costly in a game budget, and hiring the top of the Hollywood A-list as voice-talent would surely be impossibly expensive. So no, it can't be Jolie.

And anyway, I don't see that much physical resemblance.

Permidion_Stark

Gallowglass said:

Permidion_Stark said:

@Gallowglass I'd lay money it is.

I'll take your bet. How much?

I'll give you an insightful for every post you make for the rest of the week if I turn out to be wrong.

What @Amber_Scott said was that the voice actress looked like Corwin not that the portrait was based on the voice actress. Obviously, the voice actress is not Angelina Jolie. But if that picture is not a reworking of Mario Testino's photograph of her then it is a massive coincidence.

moody_mage

Just going to leave the SFW version here.

Permidion_Stark

On the subject of the portraits, does it bother anyone else that the Enhanced Editions portraits don't seem to have a 'house' style? I like to use portraits that are similar in style for all the members of my party otherwise it just looks jarring to me. It's not that I don't like the new pictures but they look so different from Dorn and Neera or any of the old BG1 and BG2 portraits for that matter.

Jace

Permidion_Stark said:

On the subject of the portraits, does it bother anyone else that the Enhanced Editions portraits don't seem to have a 'house' style? I like to use portraits that are similar in style for all the members of my party otherwise it just looks jarring to me. It's not that I don't like the new pictures but they look so different from Dorn and Neera or any of the old BG1 and BG2 portraits for that matter.

Exactly the reason why I can't live without PaintBG.

Arcanis

Jace said:

Permidion_Stark said:

On the subject of the portraits, does it bother anyone else that the Enhanced Editions portraits don't seem to have a 'house' style? I like to use portraits that are similar in style for all the members of my party otherwise it just looks jarring to me. It's not that I don't like the new pictures but they look so different from Dorn and Neera or any of the old BG1 and BG2 portraits for that matter.

Exactly the reason why I can't live without PaintBG.

I was bothered with that too.. But I have to admit, after a while of using it, I have deactivated it
for a while. (Also, I *think* it makes Shar-Teel to good-looking =P)

Permidion_Stark

Arcanis said:

Jace said:

Permidion_Stark said:

On the subject of the portraits, does it bother anyone else that the Enhanced Editions portraits don't seem to have a 'house' style? I like to use portraits that are similar in style for all the members of my party otherwise it just looks jarring to me. It's not that I don't like the new pictures but they look so different from Dorn and Neera or any of the old BG1 and BG2 portraits for that matter.

Exactly the reason why I can't live without PaintBG.

I was bothered with that too.. But I have to admit, after a while of using it, I have deactivated it
for a while. (Also, I *think* it makes Shar-Teel to good-looking =P)

I generally replace all the BG 1 and 2 portraits with ones from IWD. There are pretty good matches for all the characters (though sadly not for Imoen). I'll probably do the same for SoD though M’Khiin Grubdoubler could be a bit of a challenge.

Zymran86

Will there be any new Portraits for the PC? (Not counting the NPC Portraits)