If you have been on social media platform X in recent times, you are bound to have seen a flood of Studio Ghibli edits on your feed. Ever since OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released an AI model that lets users edit photos, people have reimagined photos as being anime movies from the iconic studio. (More Sports News)
Similarly, sports fans have jumped in on the trend, transforming images of famous sporting moments in recent times into Ghibli movie scenes. The photos that have been transformed into anime art include India바카라s heartbreaking journey in the 2023 World Cup, moments from Paris Olympics 2024 and FIFA World Cup 2024, as well as NBA and WWE.
Below are some of the best viral sporting moments that fans have turned into Studio Ghibli scenes with AI.
One user posted a four-picture slide, writing, 바카라If iconic sports moments were animated by Studio Ghibli.바카라
It displayed four memories that remain imprinted on the athletic world바카라s psyche: Damian Lillard바카라s reaction after his series-clinching three-pointer against Oklahoma, Usain Bolt looking at the camera during 2016 Rio Olympics, Tiger Wood바카라s Masters 2019 celebration, and Muhammad Ali knocking out Sonny Liston.
Turkish shooter Yusef Dikec, whose unprecedented 바카라hands in the pocket바카라 style became viral during the Paris Olympics 2024, was also transformed into a Japanese hero, as was the much-ridiculed breaking performance of Australian dancer Rachael바카라Raygun바카라 Gunn.
Football fans picked up the most prominent moments from Argentina바카라s FIFA World Cup 2024 winning journey, transforming them into art.
Other moments chosen were Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez바카라s celebration after making a save in the final match against France, Lionel Messi kissing the World Cup trophy, and wrestler CM Punk holding the WWE championship belt.
Meanwhile, cricket fans were not far behind either, with one Instagram page posting a collage of pictures from the 2023 ICC World Cup, captioning it as, 바카라Someone reimagined heartbreaking World Cup moments in the style of 'Studio Ghibli' using AI.바카라
What Is Studio Ghibli? How Did The Ghibli Trend Start?
Studio Ghibli is a Japanese production studio that specialises in animated movies, popularly known as anime. The studio has produced several internationally acclaimed movies, including Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl바카라s Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke.
The studio was founded by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, along with Isao Takahata and Toshio Suzuki. Miyazaki, who has won an Academy Honorary Award and a Ramon Magsaysay Award, is the brains behind most of the studio바카라s well-known and successful films and is considered one of the best animators of all time.
Ghibli바카라s films, either made by Miyazaki or Takahata, have a distinct look that sets them apart from other studios like Pixar or Disney. They employ a watercolour-based look, while all of their scenes retain a hand-drawn softness. The films also explore themes of humanity, love, courage, and bravery, proving that anime is more than a children바카라s fad.
The Studio Ghibli edits started after OpenAI added a new update to their GPT-4o model on 25 March allowing image editing capabilities to users. Since then, the trend has gone viral, with even OpenAI founder Sam Altman changing his X profile picture to a Ghibli-fied version of himself.
Interestingly, Hayao Miyazaki himself has never been too keen on AI. In fact, in an old interview, the veteran director said that he was 바카라disgusted바카라 with AI animation, and called it an 바카라insult to life itself바카라.
Despite the director clearly disapproving of computer-generated animation, fans are still transforming every moment worth savouring into Ghibli scenes, showing the immense respect and honour that the studio holds in their minds.
