Handmade Collectible Figure
Hand it a photograph of somebody and it comes back as a small handmade collectible figure of them — you name the few features that have to survive, because a toy face has room for about six. Two fields.
We made two examples, from two different photographs: a man in his twenties as stitched felt, and a woman in her sixties as painted wood. Two materials, two very different faces, and the same short list of features doing the work in both.
Everything you name in the list of features comes back. Red hair parted in the middle, stitched freckles and thick brows on one; a high white bun, round tortoiseshell glasses and a burgundy shawl on the other. Both figures are recognisably those people, so name concrete features rather than asking for a likeness. The material is treated as a suggestion: the wooden figure came out with the same soft look as the felt one, so check the surface before you use it.
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Input
Features shoulder-length red hair parted in the
middle · heavy freckles across the nose ·
thick straight eyebrows · a green corduroy
jacket
Made of stitched felt and fabric, with embroidered
features and glass eyes
Photograph portrait.png (1254 x 1254)
Returned 1 image · 1:1 · one figure on a seamless
marks all four found - the parted red hair, the
freckles stitched across the nose, the thick
straight brows, the green corduroy
material felt, and honest about it: visible stitching,
seams at the shoulders, glass eyes
identity recognisably the same person beside the
photograph, not a pleasant stranger
scene nothing - one figure, plain ground, no props
and no brand on anything
words none, in any scriptYou fill in 2 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The features that make them recognisable, most important first
- 2What the figure is made of
Handmade Collectible Figure
What this makes
Hand it a photograph of somebody and it comes back as a small handmade collectible figure of them — you name the few features that have to survive, because a toy face has room for about six. Two fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Attach the photograph and paste the template in the same message.
- Replace the two FIELDS lines. Put the most recognisable feature first — if only three things survive, you want them to be the first three.
- Check it by the list: point at each feature you named and find it on the figure. That is the test, and a figure that fails it is a nice toy of nobody.
- If it comes back smooth and symmetrical, the run has averaged the face; say which named feature is missing and run it again.
What you swap
- The features that make them recognisable, most important first
- shoulder-length red hair parted in the middle · heavy freckles across the nose · thick straight eyebrows · a green corduroy jacket
- What the figure is made of
- stitched felt and fabric, with embroidered features and glass eyes
Before it runs
- A photograph of the person, attached to the message, with the face clearly visible and reasonably lit.
- Permission from the person, if it is not you. A figure of somebody is a picture of them, and the fact that it is made of felt does not change whose face it is.
- Your own list of what makes them recognisable. This is the whole skill: the template spends the figure's few marks on what you name, and left to itself it spends them on nothing.
- Realistic expectations about faces. Six marks is what a toy face holds. Naming twelve features gets you the first six and a smoothed-over version of the rest.
When to reach for it
When a person should become an object: a leaving present, a team shelf, a shop mascot, a card. Templates in this genre ask for maximum facial resemblance and extreme accuracy, which is a pile of adjectives — the face they hand back is smooth, symmetrical and generically pleasant, and it is not the person.
What changes
- One photograph in, one figure out — a small handmade collectible, photographed plainly on a seamless.
- You name the features that have to survive, and each one is checkable against the photograph.
- A toy face carries about six marks, so the template spends them on what you named instead of smoothing everything into a pleasant stranger.
- The asymmetries come too — the crooked tooth, the uneven brow — because those are what recognition actually rests on.
- No brand, no franchise, no borrowed toy design: the material is a field and the proportions are the template's own.
Pairs with
- Caricature PortraitHand it a portrait and it comes back as a caricature that is still unmistakably them — because it only exaggerates what the photograph already had most of, in the order you rank it. Two fields.
- Studio Portrait PhotoHand it any photograph of somebody and it comes back as a proper studio portrait of them — new light, new background, new styling, and a face that is still theirs down to the features you named. Two fields.
- Stylised Group PortraitHand it a photograph of several people and it comes back as one stylised group portrait — everybody still themselves, because you name what tells each of them apart. Two fields.