In such cases Hagrid tends to lose his confidence and his nerve, and his classes turn boring for long periods of time ( PA8).įrom the moment he was sent to retrieve Harry for his first year at Hogwarts, Hagrid and Harry Potter became friends, and have remained so ever since. His fascination with such creatures has gotten him in trouble at times as a teacher, such as a lesson on hippogriffs that led to Draco Malfoy getting slashed ( PA6) and a lesson on thestrals, which Umbridge notes are classified as “dangerous” ( OP21). His acromantula, Aragog, is not the only “interesting creature” that has attracted Hagrid’s attention he has since been known to attempt to raise a dragon ( PS14), illegally breed Blast-Ended Skrewts ( GF13), and hide his giant half-brother, Grawp, in the Forbidden Forest ( OP30), in addition to his “normal” creatures like his pet boarhound, Fang. In 1993, his name was cleared through the efforts of Harry Potter and his friends. As a result Hagrid is fiercely loyal to Dumbledore, who has been heard to say that he “would trust Hagrid with my life” ( PS1). Albus Dumbledore, then the Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts, arranged for him to stay on as gamekeeper, and took care of him. This set him up to be framed by Tom Riddle for opening the Chamber of Secrets, and at the end of his third year he was expelled and his wand broken in two ( CS17). While at school he was known to be something of a troublemaker – among other things, raising an acromantula in the school. His childhood was difficult, as his mother Fridwulfa, a giantess, left the family when he was three, and his father died during Hagrid’s second year at Hogwarts ( GF23). The son of a human and a giantess, Hagrid tends to stick out ( PS6) and has been subjected to much prejudice ( GF24, OP15). He lives in a hut on the Hogwarts grounds near the Forbidden Forest with his pet boarhound, Fang ( PS8). Hagrid’s appearance is very intimidating, but his disposition is kind in fact, his soft heart tends to lead him to cry rather a lot ( PA11). He is excessively fond of “interesting creatures” - that anyone else would call fearsome monsters. ESRGAN is one of the most successful.Rubeus Hagrid is a half-giant with shaggy hair and a “wild, tangled beard” ( PS1) who serves as the Keeper of Keys and Grounds, Gamekeeper, and Care of Magical Creatures professor at Hogwarts ( PS4, PA6). But there's a whole field of study around the concept of perceptual super resolution, and competing AI implementations for how to upscale images with the best results. OK, that name is a mouthful, and I'm not about to pretend I fully understand how it works. But what if ~the magic of AI~ could analyze the image and more intelligently resize it? That's what ESRGAN, or Enhanced Super Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks, are all about. The backgrounds can be blurry or oversharpened-just like if you opened a jpeg in Photoshop and tried to blow it up to four times the original size. Square simply upscaled the low-res files from the original games to 1080p and called it a day. But the art files on those discs were naturally low resolution, and sloppy archival meant that when Square Enix finally ported games like Final Fantasy 8 and 9 to PC in "HD" form, it didn't have the original art files to use for modern high-res displays. Many of them, from series like Final Fantasy, are still stunning today: Detailed, stylized, beautiful works of art you could walk through as you went on an adventure. A little background: When 3D was in its infancy, PlayStation game developers compensated for the hardware's shortcomings by pairing 3D character models with pre-rendered 2D backgrounds.
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