Horrifying 'Photorealistic' Game Characters Generated by AI

The images were made in Midjourney.

If you enjoy AI-generated art, have a look at these game characters created by Reddit user EarlGrey_Picard in Midjourney – a new tool for creating images from a text description, like DALL-E 2.

The author tried to create photorealistic portraits of different characters, including Mario and Luigi, Princess Peach, Tifa Lockhart, Samus, Aloy, and others. The results are certainly... unusual. Be warned: you'll probably be scarred for life.

Disfigured characters are not all that Midjourney can make. There are some awesome works out there created with the tool: 

If you want to see what else you can make with Midjourney, join the beta here. If you liked the pictures above, you'll love what a neural network did with the Game of Thrones characters taken from the books' descriptions.

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Published 06 June 2022
Gloria Levine
Senior Editor