While Street Fighter V’s the list of characters (most) is supposed to look human, obviously everyone has a cartoonish inclination as the game has never tried to be photorealistic. Let’s just imagine for a moment, though, that Capcom era trying to make everyone look real.
What you’ll see here are the results of feeding the game’s character models using artificial intelligence, called StyleCLIP, which is probably best described as “Photoshop driven by text, with all the good, bad and chaos it entails”.
StyleCLIP can do all sorts of weird and wonderful things with images, but one thing people have been really interested in lately has been to give it pictures of fictional characters and see real human faces spitting the other end.
That Corridor crew The video of the beginning of the week does a great job of illustrating what he is capable of, from the Thanos who is very invested in personal liberties that you can see in the thumbnail below, to a Geralt who seems … damn, in reality:
But it is not so street fighter, and said the headline street fighter, so here we are street fighter. Siberian_644 (who obtained the images) and Final_Boss (who fed them in AI) joined the other day to feed AI a whole range of character faces see what you can come up with and, in some cases (Laura, Vega, Chun-Li and Lucia), it does an amazing job, in others, it doesn’t.
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Look, AI works best when you have a clear look at an entire face and when you can easily find key identifiers of that face to work on. Therefore, the characters who wear hats, glasses and masks are a struggle, just like those who have features like sharp teeth.
Here are some examples of some of the most successful:
They are fantastic! But, like I said, AI is at its best when it has regular hair and a clear face to work with. So Ibuki is … a challenge. How is Ryu’s tiara:
However, I saved the best for last: