Have you ever wondered fantasized about what Disney princesses looked like in real life? Admit it. If you were ever an adolescent boy this had to be the case. If you were an adolescent girl, you probably did the same, only imagining how glamourous it would be to be a princess. Either way, if you are a person, you probably have wondered at some point, what these characters might look like in real life.
This is your lucky day. Cause designer Jirka Väätäinen has always thought the same.
Jirka Väätäinen is a Finnish designer and photographer studying graphic design at the Art University College at Bournemouth. This series on Behance is titled Envisioning Disney Characters in “Real Life” . The project is one of the most viewed and most “appreciated” (read: “like”) collections on the site with close to 700,000 views and 23,000 “appreciations”.
Väätäinen (don’t ask me how to pronounce it), used photo manipulation and illustration to come up with these impressive images.
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Photo compositing and digital painting combined to create “real life” versions of Ariel and Ursula from The Little Mermaid, Belle from the Beauty and the Beast, Megara from Hercules, Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Esmeralda from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Princess Jasmine from Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel from Tangled, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Jane from Tarzan, as well as Tinkerbell from Peter Pan