A viral trend in Japan is now being embraced by fans of popular culture in the West who are now using Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems to turn characters from DC Comics in hyperrealistic portraits. Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, everyone goes through this process and no one is spared.
But first, it is important to give a bit of context for those who have not experienced each stage in the evolution of this phenomenon in a timely manner.
Where Japanese fans and otakus took advantage of their period of isolation during the pandemic to start playing with this class of AI platforms, to develop portraits of their favorite manga and anime characters.
The line of Eastern animation is much more stylized and minimalist than the Western one of superhero comics. So these AIs honed their capabilities by starting down the most complicated path to brutally realistic images.
For some reason it is now, until 2022, that in the West, with the furor over the use of open access Intelligences such as DALL-E mini, videos with the results of these experiments have gone viral on this side of the planet.
Now it was the turn of Western fans and geeks to do the same with comics from this side of the world, and DC characters were obvious candidates.
Fan turns Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman into real people with an AI
As reported by the site adorocinemain recent weeks a series of portraits of DC Comics characters have gone viral, where we see heroes and villains of this publishing house turned into real characters.
Today we see the company in an active fight with Warner Bros. to resurrect its cinematic universe with world-class actors like Dwayne Johnson, as the protagonist of the Black Adam film.
But a Twitter user, under the name of @theSnyderKnightdecided to start an interesting experiment that ended up becoming a viral publication:
The idea, as we can see, is essentially simple: imitate what the Japanese did with their manga characters turned into real subjects.
Only in this case, as you might well suspect from the posts on your Twitter account, the champion fed an artificial intelligence with a series of illustrations of DC Comics heroes and villains.
In the end, the AI was able to shape an impressive gallery of images that we share here in greater detail: