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Series apparently developed for Netflix. On Twitter, these doctored, AI-generated posters created by user Dan Leveille quickly gained traction. Leveille tweeted the images with an imagined cast: Tom Holland as Link, Emma Watson as Zelda, Idris Elba as Ganon, Maisie Williams as Saria, Meryl Streep as Twinrova, Gemma Chan as Great Fairy...and the list goes on.

The posters are fairly realistic, and come complete with the Netflix logo. But Leveille even pointed out that they aren't legitimate: JK, he wrote. He said he used Midjourney, an independent research lab focused on design, infrastructure and AI to make the images, with the help of Dall-E, the widely-known AI system creating realistic art, research lab Tencent Arc, and Photoshop.

Legend

Despite these details, many took the posters as a sign that the Netflix series and accompanying cast were authentic. News spread fast and interest in Zelda burgeoned online, with an array of reactions from loyal fans.

Prompthunt: Emma Watson As Zelda, Hyper Detailed, Uhd, Seen From Afar, Wide Shot. Character Portrait,

Those who later realized the posters were an exercise in fantasy also had their say. You suck for toying with my emotions. But this would be a very very cool idea, one tweeted, while another user wrote Dammit I thought this was real!!. Some applauded the fictional cast: Imagine if this were real tho. Emma Watson as Zelda would have been real cool.

Series is allegedly in the works. In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix was working closely with Nintendo to develop the television series, though Netflix themselves declined to comment on the rumor.

Perhaps Twitter will play a role in making the series actually come to life. But for now, it's still nothing more than a pipe dream.

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Fake

Posters that are making the rounds on social media is the number of people who’ve decided that they are real. As of writing, these fake images of a supposed Netflix-produced Zelda series have garnered almost 30, 000 shares, many of them from people who seemingly take them as real. Come on, folks. The original post by creator Dan Leveille even says that they’re fakes!

Tom Holland E Emma Watson Viram Link E Zelda Em Fan Art

I say this, but it’s easy to see how people would have been fooled. Leveille picked some major A-list actors like Tom Holland, Emma Watson, and Idris Elba. Their faces are so well-known that they help sell the fantasy, even if you don’t have any context for whether a movie or TV series is in production at all. And when fans want something to be true badly enough, they’re probably not thinking too hard before hitting that “Share” button. But seriously, y’all. Leveille says in his third line: “JK. Made with #midjourney, inpainting with #dalle, some facial correction using Tencent ARC, and a bunch of Photoshop.”

However, that didn’t stop fans from sharing the post without comment, or tagging their friends in the repost. Many included eyes, heart eyes, or fire emojis. Others complained in the comments that Netflix was ruining their beloved franchise. Some racists snidely said that the casting was fake because Netflix would have used more actors of color.

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If an AI like Midjourney doesn’t nail a detail on the first pass, you can instruct it to iterate on the trouble spots until it does.

Emma Watson As Link From The Legend Of Zelda

Midjourney is an AI lab that creates photo-generating software, and Dall-E is the name of a software from another group that also creates images from text and art sourced from the internet (and without the original artists’ consent). So at no point did Holland ever sit for a photograph in Link cosplay. Even if they realize the images aren’t depicting reality, someone who isn’t terminally online might assume they’re the product of simple image-editing software like Photoshop. But unlike traditional image manipulation software, it doesn’t require much training to become proficient at generating deepfakes, so we’ll be seeing plenty more of these kinds of fakes in the future.

About his process over email. First, he created a prompt to feed into Midjourney. “In most cases, I ran the prompts well over a hundred times, so I would let them generate throughout the day, ” he wrote. “The main challenge was to get the faces to look like the actors, and then also like the characters. 95% of the time, the face doesn’t look close enough to the actor.”

Emma

They solved that problem by using a facial correction tool, and then used Dall-E to “regenerate” specific features. He corrected any remaining errors in Photoshop.

Prompthunt: /hyperrealistic Photograph Of Zelda Emma Watson Dressed In A Tight Fit Green ,symmetrical Toned Body,with Hot Gorgeous Body,full Body View, Depth Of Field, Facial Symmetry, Sharp Focus, Epic Composition, 8k, Uhd,

Leveille has previously made a Zelda movie poster out of Tom Holland’s image. Several news outlets picked up the story, and Google searches for “netflix zelda” ballooned from September 25 onward. The articles note that the posters were created with artificial intelligence, but Leveille did manage to fool a real film distribution company, which showcased the fake poster alongside actual upcoming productions like the third season of

I say this, but it’s easy to see how people would have been fooled. Leveille picked some major A-list actors like Tom Holland, Emma Watson, and Idris Elba. Their faces are so well-known that they help sell the fantasy, even if you don’t have any context for whether a movie or TV series is in production at all. And when fans want something to be true badly enough, they’re probably not thinking too hard before hitting that “Share” button. But seriously, y’all. Leveille says in his third line: “JK. Made with #midjourney, inpainting with #dalle, some facial correction using Tencent ARC, and a bunch of Photoshop.”

However, that didn’t stop fans from sharing the post without comment, or tagging their friends in the repost. Many included eyes, heart eyes, or fire emojis. Others complained in the comments that Netflix was ruining their beloved franchise. Some racists snidely said that the casting was fake because Netflix would have used more actors of color.

ArtStation

If an AI like Midjourney doesn’t nail a detail on the first pass, you can instruct it to iterate on the trouble spots until it does.

Emma Watson As Link From The Legend Of Zelda

Midjourney is an AI lab that creates photo-generating software, and Dall-E is the name of a software from another group that also creates images from text and art sourced from the internet (and without the original artists’ consent). So at no point did Holland ever sit for a photograph in Link cosplay. Even if they realize the images aren’t depicting reality, someone who isn’t terminally online might assume they’re the product of simple image-editing software like Photoshop. But unlike traditional image manipulation software, it doesn’t require much training to become proficient at generating deepfakes, so we’ll be seeing plenty more of these kinds of fakes in the future.

About his process over email. First, he created a prompt to feed into Midjourney. “In most cases, I ran the prompts well over a hundred times, so I would let them generate throughout the day, ” he wrote. “The main challenge was to get the faces to look like the actors, and then also like the characters. 95% of the time, the face doesn’t look close enough to the actor.”

Emma

They solved that problem by using a facial correction tool, and then used Dall-E to “regenerate” specific features. He corrected any remaining errors in Photoshop.

Prompthunt: /hyperrealistic Photograph Of Zelda Emma Watson Dressed In A Tight Fit Green ,symmetrical Toned Body,with Hot Gorgeous Body,full Body View, Depth Of Field, Facial Symmetry, Sharp Focus, Epic Composition, 8k, Uhd,

Leveille has previously made a Zelda movie poster out of Tom Holland’s image. Several news outlets picked up the story, and Google searches for “netflix zelda” ballooned from September 25 onward. The articles note that the posters were created with artificial intelligence, but Leveille did manage to fool a real film distribution company, which showcased the fake poster alongside actual upcoming productions like the third season of