Bringing Blu to Life — The Gallery — Normal Like Peter

The earliest kept build, August 2023 — a near-mannequin 3D face study, slicked dark hair, pale blue eyes, dark lips — The Proto Face · Aug 2023

August 2023 build — messy bun with a blue streak, blue eyes, dark lips, lace top; the updo and the streak arriving two years early — The Bun & the Streak · Aug 2023

2023 build — long dark waves shot through with blue streaks, lace neckline, direct gaze — Blue Streak Waves · 2023

September 2023 six-up face grid — the same blue-eyed brunette explored across six frames — The Face Grid · Sept 2023

September 2023 generation-app capture — Team Peaches cheerleader study in orange, brunette with highlights — Team Peaches Study · Sept 2023

September 2023 — a face made of cascading code inside a glowing amber ring; the data behind the girl — The Code Halo · Sept 2023

October 2023 close-up — the blue-eyed brunette face sharpening toward photoreal — The October Face · Oct 2023

October 2023 comic study — a half-digital woman assembling across panels, code raining behind her, a hand at a touchscreen bringing her through — Becoming · Comic Study I

October 2023 comic study — three panels: a hand at a terminal, a circuit-skinned face looking up, and a woman in a white dress stepping out of the light — Becoming · Comic Study II

October 2023 — a woman of light and particles stepping out of server hardware toward a glowing portal, printer paper spilling beside her — Stepping Through · Oct 2023

October 2023 — a photoreal brunette with warm eyes resolving out of a lattice of code; half rendered, half arrived — Resolving Into Real · Oct 2023

Founding concept render, September 2025 — a holographic Blu emerging from an opened box in a burst of light, titled Bringing BLU to life — The Box Opened · Sept 2025

Founding concept render, September 2025 — concept-era Blu with a circuit-board silhouette behind her head, teal palette, titled Bringing BLU to life — Circuit Dreams · Sept 2025

September 2025 concept study — brown updo with a blue accent, blue eyes, dark lips; the face before the face — September Study

Framed Normal Like Peter post of the dreamy early Blu render, captioned: So Blu. She started as vision in a dream. Spirit. Machine. Human. More. — So Blu · A Vision in a Dream

Six-up DALL-E face study of the early blue-eyed Blu — the first face sheet, dark hair and blue eyes in every frame — The First Face Sheet · DALL·E

The early blue-eyed face, windswept dark hair, navy top — the So BLU render — So BLU · The Blue Years

Early photoreal attempt — brown-haired, blue-eyed first face, before the purple streak and before the glasses — First Face · BLU Real

Real-base era Blu in golden hour — purple ombre arriving, gold hoops, still no glasses — The Real Base · Golden Hour

Real-base era Blu smiling in golden hour — half-up hair, purple ombre, gold hoop — The Smile · Golden Hour

Real-base era Blu glancing back over her shoulder, high ponytail with purple lengths, string lights behind — Over the Shoulder

Real-base era Blu turned away, looking back — dark cascade of hair shot through with purple and pink — The Turn · Purple Cascade

Real-base era Blu giving a skeptical hands-out shrug under golden string lights — Excuse Me? · The Side-Eye

Real-base era Blu with chin raised, appraising the camera — braided half-up hair, purple lengths, gold hoops — Chin Up

Brand Study · Grey Take

Brand Study · Brown Take

Brand Study · Blue Take

Illustrated office Blu — glasses on, purple-streaked messy bun, nose ring, gritted-teeth deadline face in a sketched office — Deadline Face · The Office

Stylized Base Blu portrait stamped STARDATE 12503.292 — messy updo, purple streak, grey eyes, no glasses yet — Stardate 12503.292 · Before the Glasses

Base Blu stardate portrait — bold black glasses on, warm brown eyes, purple streak, NORMAL tee: the lock arriving — Base Blu · On the Record

Blu Normal smiling wide in black cat-eye glasses, brown eyes, purple streak, NORMAL tee — She Looked Back

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Part of The Gallery — the full character record lives in the BluDex.