The Studio Ghibli-style edits have taken the internet by storm in the past few days. With the help of the OpenAI’s latest image generator, people across the world are trying to recreate their daily life into Studio Ghibli’s animation style art.
While the 18th season of Indian Premier League (IPL), we at Livemint decided to jump on the trend and recreate out favourite cricketing stars like Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and others in Studio Ghibli avatar and see how they look in these animation-style edits.
The cricketing fraternity is engrossed with IPL at the moment. Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are currently at the top of the table with two wins in both their games while MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have won one game out of their two.
Meanwhile, Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai Indians are yet to record a win yet in IPL 2025 in their two matches so far.
What is Studio Ghibli-style art?
Based in Koganei, Tokyo, Studio Ghibli is an award-winning Japanese animation firm, founded by animators and directors Miyazaki Hayao and Takahata Isao and producer Suzuki Toshio in 1985. In the last 40 years, Studio Ghibli has produced numerous high-quality animated movies, featuring hand-drawn figures.
What Studio Ghibli founder said?
However, Studio Ghibli founder Miyazaki Hayao is against the trend. The Japanese national felt it is “insult to life itself.” “I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all. I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself,” Miyazaki Hayao was quoted as saying in a a clip from documentary NHK Special: Hayao Miyazaki — The One Who Never Ends.
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