While last week we saw a bunch of Street Fighter characters given realistic human faces, this week the same AI is being turned on a game thatâs seemingly even less likely to give us functional results: Dark Souls
Inspired by the same Corridor Crew that led to the Street Fighter faces, illusory wall has grabbed a whole bunch of Dark Souls characters and tested out what the AI can produce through all those hats and all that sadness.
Of course, monsters are off the cards, which places limits on what can and canât be done with the game. The AI isnât magic; it relies on being able to pinpoint certain characteristics of the human face and then improving them, and so anything with a distinctly inhuman face, or a face thatâs covered by stuff, canât produce results.
So that narrows us down to the gameâs humanoid NPCs and enemies, and boy, the results here are even more impressive than they were with Street Fighter. Maybe because these models are simpler, or because theyâre presented in less dynamic poses than the stylised Street Fighter art, but the more conventional characters here look great.
Like this!
And this!
And, uh, the Egg Burdened!
You can see the full video here, which dwells mostly on NPCs, but has time at the end to try out some bad guys as well:
The artificial intelligence used here is called StyleCLIP, which is probably best described as âPhotoshop driven by text, with all the good, bad, and chaos that entailsâ StyleCLIP can do all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff with images, but the specific thing that folks have really been into latelyâas these last two videos weâve shared showâhas been feeding it pictures of fictional characters and seeing real human faces spat out the other end.
