Snow White’s eyes are looking into my soul.
Hello! My name is Hannah, and I grew up wishing I was a Disney princess. Or at least, living in the world of a Disney movie.
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Why yes, I did have a Disney princess themed birthday party when I was 14. That should give you an idea of the kind of teenager I was (hint: not cool. I was very creative though!!! I repurposed my old Bat Mitzvah dress into this dress — it had ribbons for the arms, too, but they were uncomfortable, so I’d taken them off by the time this photo was snapped — and set up decorations and a special Disney scavenger hunt myself. There was no party like a Hannah Marder birthday party).
But unfortunately, my life is not animated. And rather than try to animate everything around me, I decided it might be fun to try un-animating stuff from the Disney-verse. In this case, Disney princesses!
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Yes, I KNOW some of these have live-action castings. And I love those castings — this is in no way to say those were bad or these would be better! I’m just messing around with robots here.
I worked with a ~fancy AI~ (Artbreeder) to generate the portraits — if you’re curious to see what the computer and I came up with together, read on!
First up, we’ve got my fave Disney princess: Rapunzel. Here she is in Tangled.
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And here is what she’d look like IRL:
Here they are side-by-side!
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Next up, we got another blonde princess: Aurora from Sleeping Beauty! Here she is in the film:
Aaaand this is how she’d look IRL!
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I know she looks a bit older than 16 here, but I compromised, considering she looks, like, 30 in the movie.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here is Moana in Moana.
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Here they are side-by-side!
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Here’s Cinderella from Cinderella.
Here’s Anna from Frozen and Frozen II.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here’s Elsa from Frozen and Frozen II.
And here they are side-by-side!
Here’s Pocahontas in Pocahontas.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here’s Jasmine in Aladdin.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here’s Merida in Brave.
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Here they are side-by-side.
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This is one where I went ahead and made the character look a bit younger. She looked way too old in the movie, imo.
Here’s Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
Here they are side-by-side.
Here’s Belle in Beauty and the Beast.
And here they are side-by-side!
Here’s Tiana in The Princess and the Frog.
Here they are side-by-side.
And finally, here’s Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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Here they are side-by-side!
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Were any of these wayyy off? Which were your faves? Let us know in the comments below!
