I am attaching stl files if you would like to 3D print them with standard materials too.

Daenerys 3D model is hollow, if you want a solid version please contact me after purchase. Zip files contains obj and wrl with texture in png. So I don't think this is a similar request to your examples. Here are Daenerys Targaryen and Arya Stark from Game of Thrones 3D models ready for full color 3D printing. But survey the general populous with sets of screenshots and you'll overwhelmingly find people like the higher-fidelity version. Yes, you might find some people agreeing, and the fan base will generally agree because those that didn't like it didn't become part of that fan base. To deliberately choose pixelation is like if Game of Thrones decided to downgrade to 480p and add film grain because they liked the old-fashioned look.

Blocky 'nearest' filtering is pretty much universally accepted as uglier in most circumstances for most eyes - it's taught that way, and described that way in many tutorials and sites, via phrases like 'enhancing the image quality' (for using higher-quality filtering).

A gift box is just a regular box that is covered with a gift wrapper. It's a matter of adding a single option to optionally change a single variable (or possibly a set, but even if it is that's just a little bit of find and replace) passed to the graphics API. Every block in Minecraft is covered with textures.

They can very likely provide an option with a trivial amount of effort. Game of Thrones Game Texture Edited by Me.

The two points of difference I'm trying to emphasize over those arguments are: they must change that or make a mod for that?

Game of thrones texture pack