Like I posted over on Reddit (where people pointed out that this is not a patch 8 thing?):

The only time something similar ever happened to me before (and on all sorts of patches/versions of the game) was with Minsc. I've never seen it with *any* other character and never outside of Act III.

What seemed to happen there was if I leveled him up holding The Dead Shot, a part of that bow's string (from his inventory character-model) would somehow be superimposed over his portrait and the portrait itself would show up way too dark.

I never found a way to fix this after it had happened. I tried re-leveling him multiple times, gave up, went back to an older save and tried again. These days I will only level him up without any non-standard gear on his person ... and that seems to work. Oh, and I will also always make sure to make a quick-save before I hit the "Level Up"-button with him... laugh


All that said: Apart from being too dark and having part of an object in it that shouldn't be there, Minsc' portrait was always fine otherwise. He had the "correct" pose and distance from the camera (unlike with SH or other characters), so maybe these things aren't really caused by the same glitch?

S.