Cartoon cast to photoreal actors
Which cheap image model turns cartoon character designs into believable actors and stays on model?
How: Six cartoon character references from our show Pillbox, each converted to a photoreal actor by two models with the same prompt.
- Muse Image
Stayed closer to each design and used the plain gray backdrop the prompt asked for, every time. $0.01 an image.
- Nano Banana 2
Kept the pharmacy background on 2 of 5 characters even though the prompt asked for a plain gray backdrop, and changed one character's ethnicity. About $0.067 an image.
Limits: Both models added glasses that are not in some of the designs. One prompt, five characters shown here.