Homm3 Hero Portrait Remaster: Rangers

Original Heroes of Might and Magic 3 hero portraits remastered using Stable Diffusion with DreamShaper checkpoint, img2img pipeline and 1-2 hours of manual work per portrait with Affinity Photo.
Get the full-resolution images and game-ready files in here:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UOknolSHMciw9T8yaVurQtVvb3OjEuJl
Thanks for watching!

[@abenheiser]

Makes me want to cry. The characters in my childhood fairy tales have never looked so alive before

[@RammmFan]

they did, only in imagination. and now eyes are joining the feast

[@gryfica3308]

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[@user-ub1tg8nb5n]

Новые версии шикарно детализировано прорисованы, но теряется портретное сходство (где-то разрез глаз немного другой, где-то ширина носа, где-то овал лица). А еще не совпадают характеристики освещения лиц (в оригинале блики немного по другому ложатся). Из-за этого создается эффект, что новые портреты хоть и шикарно прорисованы, но немного чужие и незнакомые. Видимо, за часы, проведенные за игрой, эти портреты настолько впечатались в мозг до пикселя, что даже небольшие несоответствия заметны (например, чуть другое выражение лица или взгляд). Удивительно, насколько гармонично оригинальная картинка смотрится именно в миниатюре, судя по всему, художники учитывали небольшой размер холста и правили портрет попиксельно для больше разборчивости и выразительности. Это приводило к искажениям пропорций, но подчеркивало детали лица. Очень хорошо это видно на примере глаз: большой детализированный портрет при уменьшении превращает глаза в темные впадины, в то время, как в оригинале всегда ярко подчеркиваются белки глаз и черная радужка.

[@user-ty1bl8kz3t]

Тут норм, на других каналах с этим вообще трэш. Форму лица меняют, цвет глаз, возраст лет на 20 моложе делают. Где то вообще забыли глаза дорисовать.

[@SvenRedBeard]

Ufretin looks amazing, always though his image was really weird in the original. Nice glow up!

[@mikaeusbznd744]

Mephala is perfect. Looks like she is experienced.

[@CrackingCritic]

This is next level amazing, I honestly wish the original artist could see this.

[@NihonjinAdik]

Soundtrack... Only few seconds at the start and all the memories came back... This game was perfect in every part 😊

[@Azzazzello]

Looks very nice and the music is FANTASTIC

[@csorfab]

Holy shit, these are so good!!! I usually don't like AI enhanced HoMM3 content, but these are SO WELL DONE! Really keeping the original intent and vibes while even improving a bit on the goofier drawings like Gelu and Thorgrim! Congratz, man!

[@StrigoiVampire]

Your remasters are the best I've seen on KZbin, they're as close as possible. congratulations

[@bozydarziemniak1853]

I hope that you insert this portraits in the Horn of the Abyss.

[@mikhailc8708]

Jenova is stunning beautiful ❤️ Before remastering I thought that Mephala is the most beautiful... But she became less attractive

[@nixlarfs1002]

Jenova is absolutely stunning, but Mephala is quite the MILF as well!

[@plrc4593]

Remastered looks older.

[@wampyrelli]

Well, I've always been a Jenova simp 😆

[@amoqueca]

The specialization of Jenova is exactly made around of her beauty lol

[@user-yy3sx1ec2s]

She is just older and wiser.

[@krzysiekwodarski7371]

Seriously that looks so good ❤ time to change portraits in game thank you soooo much 🙏

[@wertoa]

Mephala looks so beautiful after the remaster.

[@gryfica3308]

Wow, they look awesome. It's amazing to see my childchood heroes so alive, so realistic! Thank you!

[@bohunataman]

Amazing work.

[@KingLich451]

Thanks for actually sharing the files dude. Huge thanks.

[@frankiggs]

Phenomenal work!

[@yujingong7953]

Thank you so much for sharing these!

[@heyrakorzlar]

Jenova 😍

[@alexandruflorea9129]

Amazing work!

[@iuriiusgt]

Man, you just made them breath!Geppetto🤌

[@PartizanRus]

Well done. Idk why nobody made it for 20+ years. But you made it Right. 👍

[@1k1ta]

wow, this is incredible!

[@leonidminashin7447]

Just amazing!

[@freedom7129]

great job , dude !

[@PSCortezz]

Nicely done!

[@TudorAlexandru]

Amazing! 😍😍😍

[@Muffinzy]

love them!!

[@aveide]

Wow. Amazing.

[@maker83]

They look identical to how I saw them when I first played Heroes Of Might And Magic 3 ^^

[@mariutunio]

The legendary Gelu.

[@sergeygoncharov8205]

AI finally revealed our imagination to be true. Heroes III 8K awaits us, be patient.

[@1andrzej1i]

I love this game.❤

[@LiquidValor]

Lately I've been reading about the debate of whether Kyrre is male or female by canon. These remasters treat the original homm3 data files as the ground truth, so I went with the female variant for now. But maybe I'll make the male variant as a bonus material later down the line.

[@RllXeron]

Kyrre looks perfect, its an elf trait that sometimes it is hard to decide if a character is male or female and this is the case if you look at her I see a male but its Just percetion. By the way why ivor have wrinkles on his forehead? 😢

[@Mytelefe]

My boy Kyrre looking fine. Some rangers use different traps than the ones for hunting animals in forest :)

[@PusheenandPyrite]

I always thought Ryland had a pointy beard! 😂

[@xenosophont]

I don't think Ivor is supposed to have a goatee and that was just a pixelated shadow around the chin/neck area. Yeah yeah I AM aware of the Elves of Enroth (HoMM and Might & Magic VII & VIII) sometimes being depicted with facial hair; but still... Also the AI really exaggerates the size of those knife-ears and makes them HUGE/satyr-like.

[@dottedmug]

The remastered Jenova looks like the original's daughter.

[@user-ls5iu5rb1d]

ивор, мефала гелу, енова сильно изменили, очертания губ носа не сходятся. но работа интересная

[@corathir3234]

Мефала будто постарела

[@UNIT01-Evangelion]

@@corathir3234 она будто "как меня всё это заебало!!!"

[@Tarankov]

@@corathir3234 согласен абсолютно!

[@PlanetaJuegosPC]

That´s exactly how i remember them

[@555frontier]

4:11 my love

[@amai2307]

Jenova looks good. Ivor has face hair despite being an elf somehow. Mephala looks realy old in remaster.

[@artanikus]

I didn’t know what Ryland was a John Denver :)))

[@user-lr4bg9eo6k]

Прорисовка впечатляет

[@user-rm5py9hj4d]

00:31 Jenova is Best !

[@Vladimir87ish]

Мепхала мой герой!

[@mewsyc3165]

это лучшее что я видел!

[@sorin990]

WOW ! Better job than ubisofts "HD" version XD

[@akasha.nightshadow]

I want Vidomina now

[@benjaminkurilla3943]

Their emotional state is slightly different. Is it intentional?

[@randomyoshi]

Ufretin- Remastered Ufretin looks grumpy and wants to be left alone. Jenova- She looks awesome in the remaster! Her ear looks a bit too big IMO. Ivor- I don't think Ivor's supposed to have a little beard on his chin, but the remastered portrait still looks good IMO. Thorgrim- The remaster looks better. Thorgrim's portrait in the original looked a little weird and as if he drunk a little too much beer. Mephala- She looks pretty thin in the remaster. Gelu- This is a good remaster. Gelu's a half-human, half-Snow Elf, so I liked how you didn't make his skin deathly pale. Ryland- His face looks a little off (he looks older than I imagined), but the rest of him looks pretty good. Kyrre- Just like Jenova, Kyrre's ear looks too big. But the rest of her looks great! Clancy- I like this one. He looks like an old and determined war veteran.

[@user-pv2ur8zz7h]

Ivor, Jenova, Kyrre, Mephala

[@user-vu6hn4ul2i]

Обратили внимание, что Уфретин пришел первым... Классика 😂

[@SlavaRossiiPobedaZaNami]

Wow

[@XmatuliXLP]

Jenova...I mean...wow

[@user-ty1bl8kz3t]

А я всегда думал что у Риланда тонкая длинная бородка есть)

[@MrConredsX]

I thought Ryland was a half tree/ent-person when i first played the game but turn out he's just a tanned human

[@Quitarstudent]

i thought he has beard on his chin, like a long stripe lol

[@user-xi9yr9et8t]

What has been done to Janova nose😭

[@honeyth1ef]

My poor Mephala got 300 older :(

[@yuuya2111]

Can you please remake Mephala 😭 she looks a bit too frail and old here. Anyway Jenova is so beautiful!

[@sgt.archdornan8199]

Thorgrim was turned into a troll lol

[@Cyber669]

Lol Ryland is much like an elven version of Peter Falk (lt. Columbo) Even a glass eye is kept 😂

[@Dawid.O]

can you use AI to remaster whole game?

[@Deailon]

I do not understand the change in design (structure of face) for Jenova, Ivor and Kyrre. They were fine as they were, but now they are different. I do not say worse - just not the same people.

[@wojciechkurek6593]

Jenova has too much hair, quiver at her back should be added. Thorgrim: spikes on his head should be silver and more conical. Mephala looks way too old. Ryland's feather is not black on its end. The rest is perfect, especially Gelu and Kyrre.

[@marcingogowski6077]

AI version is based on the in-game remaster. It would be better to use original version - i.e. Mephala doesn't look exactly like in original picture (chin too narrow)

[@lenin1st]

енова - девочка приносящая деньги в дом.

[@vladhangan8763]

For 20 years I thought Kyrre was a male. Jenova, marry me.

[@MrRoBayern]

Mephala=Rebecca Ferguson?

[@h0ph1p13]

how old were you when you learned that Kyrre is female?

[@woneluvhnie9885]

Из еновы скарлет йохансен сделали. В целом кроме мефалы и гномов попаданий не вышло.

[@user-nm1gj4qn6w]

Вот бы ещё и Героям 3 сделали бы ремастер. Подчёркиваю не ремейк а ремастер. Тоесть тоже самое но просто с улучшенной графикой. Не понятно почему в прошлом в Героях 4 решили не делать так а перековыряли игру до основания.

[@user-pz4ky5tg5l]

Where the f is Tarnum

[@lxdead5585]

Nice but imho Jenova 0:44 doesn't have this "raw" beauty that OG had. It bothers me that every single female must be "upgraded" and fake looking, Mephala on the other hand is fine transition.

[@Izbrannyi1]

Где Корониус?! Мефала стала выглядеть хуже, черты лица стали излишне резкими. Ивор получил странную бородку. Киррь похорошела, как и Торнгрим. Кланси стал более суровым, уверенным. Ему идёт. Женова несколько изменилась, но осталась красавицей, 👍🏻.

[@Tristam_]

Все вдруг стали старыми. 😂

[@orthros3327]

Yeah... who did this hates maphala😒😔

[@leoniddrunkenemyrus406]

Многих женских персонажей молодят слишком. Теряется оригинальный вайб. Здесь например Енова слишком омолодилась. Мефале какой то не тот нос приделали, от чего она стала страшновата

[@Woitek1993]

I think this guy stoled your work: OurStrangeEarth

[@amoqueca]

wtf Kyrre is a female

[@Airis4605]

Original Mephala is better. Remastered is too old. The “improved in game” Gelu literally has no apple of the eye at all . Scary

[@sethburkhart1021]

I thought the same thing. A lot of great work otherwise though!

[@NifeSweet]

my mephala looks better in original