Street Fighter Characters Get Human Faces Thanks to New AI Tool

To learn more about how this all works, you can read a deeper explanation of the StyleCLIP technology that’s been published by BuzzFeed data scientist Max Woolf. If you’re just here for the funny faces, however, we’ve got plenty of those thanks to Twitter user and Street Fighter player Siberian_644.

As indicated by the images above, the user took a couple of front-facing shots of different Street Fighter characters to see what they’d look like when they were ran through the StyleCLIP tool. Some of them don’t look too bad when they’re turned into more humanlike faces with Guile, for example, looking like a bad live-action version of the character more than anything else.

Others, however, didn’t do quite so well whenever the algorithm got ahold of them. The one below is certainly an example of a transformation that ended up being a bit off compared to the original model used. It’s also interesting to see how the tool picks up on different characters having more masculine or feminine qualities in their faces and acts upon those assumptions accordingly.

AI tools like this have been growing in popularity recently which means that StyleCLIP is far from the first one to be able to do this sort of thing, but it’s the latest one that people have been playing around with the most. Much of the inspiration for these new creations appears to have come from a recent Corridor Crew video which showcased the technology and provided another explanation for it for those who wanted to know more.