"I've especially fond memories of him keeping our spirits up on 'Prisoner of Azkaban,' when we were all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid's hut and he was telling stories and cracking jokes to keep morale up," he said of the film released in 2004. In a statement, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, 33, called Coltrane "one of the funniest people I've met." I send my love and deepest condolences to his family, above all his children."
"He was an incredible talent, a complete one-off, and I was beyond fortunate to know him, work with him and laugh my head off with him. Rowling led the tributes on Twitter, writing: "I'll never know anyone remotely like Robbie again. , and after 40 years of being proud to be called his agent, I shall miss him," she said in a statement. "As well as being a wonderful actor, he was forensically intelligent., brilliantly witty. He was the English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson in the TV comedy series Blackadder the Third alongside Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie (House).Ĭoltrane's agent Belinda Wright called Coltrane a "unique talent" and said he had brought joy to children across the world playing the boy wizard's monster-loving friend.
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He came to prominence and won more awards for his portrayal of the hard-drinking criminal psychologist Dr Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald in the ITV series Cracker (1993-2006). On television, he starred alongside Emma Thompson in the cult BAFTA-winning BBC mini-series Tutti Frutti in 1987. He also played a former KGB agent-turned-Russian mafia boss in two James Bond films - Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999) - with Pierce Brosnan.Ĭoltrane forged a career as an actor, comedian and writer. ESRGAN is one of the most successful.London: Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, died on Friday at the age of 72, his agent said.
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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.
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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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