GTA Series Heroes and Heroines in the Style of Studio Ghibli Cartoons

The Ghibli AI neural network can turn any image into a frame from Hayao Miyazaki's anime. We took advantage of this opportunity and collected art from the GTA series games, which were reworked to look like the masterpieces of the Japanese animator. The result is in front of you.

Ghibli is a Japanese animation studio founded by Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. It produced such masterpieces as Howl's Moving Castle, Grave of the Fireflies, Mononoke Hime, and the Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron.

Anime from this studio has a special style, thanks to which all the characters look surprisingly cute. The Ghibli AI neural network transforms any picture so that it looks like a still from a Hayao Miyazaki cartoon.

Let's start with the not yet released Grand Theft Auto 6. After processing the official art by the Ghibli AI neural network, Lucy and her friend began to look like characters from a romantic anime series.

The frames from the only trailer for the game have a similar effect.

The key characters of Grand Theft Auto 5 have turned from dangerous men into kind, but a little naive characters. At least, that's the impression the anime-style art gives.

But Niko remains a dangerous bandit even in Hayao Miyazaki's cartoons. I can't help but want to paraphrase the famous saying — "Serbian men are so tough..."

Ryder and Smoke in the art look like they are up to something, and Sweet suspects them of something. The funniest thing is that this corresponds to the plot of the game. At the same time, there was nothing like this in the original picture.

As a result of neural network processing, Tommy has changed little. He has perhaps become a little less brutal.

And his former boss Sonny Forelli has finally transformed into an aged Tony Montana from Scarface.

The silent hero of the third Grand Theft Auto resembles the protagonist of a typical anime series in the spirit of Bleach. It's hard to believe that such a guy decapitated the entire mafia elite of Liberty City.

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