Police composite software makes realistic portraits of literary characters

[Nick]

http://io9.com/5894304/police-composi...

Composites of
Vaughn, Crash, JG Ballard
Gary, Zone One, Colson Whitehead
Aomame, 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
The Finn, "Burning Chrome" and Neuromancer, William Gibson
Marla Singer, Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Hiro Protagonist, Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson

and

Samuel Klayman aka Sam Clay, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon

[Warren]

Excellent.
Except that the police got Hiro's hair wrong.
When he's in his cyber-ninji mode he tend to slick it back a bit.
or at least he did last week.

[terpkristin]

I remember seeing something like this before. The results were somewhat creepy.

[Ryan]

Back when I was a young student at the Academy of Art in San Fransisco I used to do freelance illustration and one of my biggest clients was a large role playing group that paid me to do portraits of their characters as well as their favorite characters from books. Seeing this post made me think of those days. Here is one of the portraits I did;

[Ryan]

My camera phone does this no justice... sigh.
Might be fun to use photoshop for character portraits. I wonder how others would see some of my favorite characters?

[Tamahome]

Aomame from 1Q84

[Gordon]

They're pretty cool, but I find there's a strange flatness to the faces, as though they're being pressed behind glass. They need more shading depth.