Author: We had so much fun using AI technology to create these AI-generated photos of wrestlers, even when the descriptions were downright outrageous! We couldn’t believe the results!
AI-Generated Wrestling Photos: How We Did It
Artificial intelligence is getting more advanced by the day. We had fun using AI technology to create photos of wrestlers using some outlandish descriptors, such as “Andre the Giant dancing at a nightclub,” and were more than surprised by the results.
For the creation of these AI-generated wrestling images, we used the website DreamStudio. With DreamStudio, and other top AI image generator websites like it, the possibilities are endless.
In DreamStudio, there is a search box/prompt at the bottom of the interface. The prompt is crucial to the image that will be generated. For example, we tried “Macho Man Randy Savage riding a skateboard in the style of Salvador Dali,” hit the “Dream” button, and the Stable Diffusion model made our dreams come to fruition!
Our Goofy First Attempts at Creating AI Wrestling Photos
Before we got too deep into messing around with the AI art’s potential, we had some goofy results.
At first, it was all about testing the waters. We didn’t know what prompts worked the best, so we’ll show our humble first attempts.
We would later stumble upon a truly powerful prompt, though, “Hulk Hogan riding a motorcycle at night, 4k resolution, by Henri Cartier-Bresson” was our fun beginning!
We moved on to attempt using director David Lynch in our prompt to see if that could produce something worthwhile and came up with this result:
Macho Man Randy Savage
Hulk Hogan Fighting The Incredible Hulk
After our first few attempts with AI-generated wrestling art, it got us thinking. We have an article on the history of The Incredible Hulk and Hulk Hogan. So, we put ourselves in a time machine, asking ourselves: Can we find a desirable image to feature The Incredible Hulk and Hulk Hogan fighting?
So we tried it out…
Then everything changed.
Our Very Best AI-Generated Wrestling Photos
Once we discovered the following AI prompt, things went from fun messing around to something awe-inspiring.
During a Livestream on Twitch, a streamer under the username “moistcr1tikal” was playing around on the DreamStudio site, seeing what glorious masterpieces were waiting to be discovered.
A few users were sending their prompt suggestions in the chat, which were fed to the streamer throughout the broadcast. One was so elaborate and out there that the streamer gave it a shot.
The result was so overwhelmingly strong that he subsequently posted it to his YouTube channel:
The description in question was bizarre and was as follows:
“futuristic neon, decorated with traditional Japanese ornaments by ismail inceoglu dragan bibin hans thoma greg rutkowski alexandros pyromallis nekro rene maritte illustrated, perfect face, fine details, realistic shaded, fine-face, pretty face”
Yeah, that mouthful was enough for the DreamStudio AI to generate the best wrestling images we could create. It’s the golden prompt. If you change that first sentence to whatever you desire, be it “Paul Wight holding a pizza,” then paste that golden prompt above following it, and you’ll get something unique. Of course, it doesn’t always hit. But it’s so worth it when it does!
In the video, streamer Charlie generates amazing images of Walter White. Immediately, our minds went to what we could do with pro wrestling!
It’s safe to say the results exceeded even our expectations.
Paul Wight
Triple H
This was only the second time I experimented with that mouthful of a descriptor. The first was that lively Paul Wight piece, and then this boss art piece of a suited Triple H followed, standing there ready for war.
Randy Orton
Our leap down the rabbit hole of AI-generated wrestling photos continued with this fantastic futuristic Randy Orton piece.
Roman Reigns
The following is an example of how to use the above prompt in DreamStudio to create an image of Roman Reigns:
As you can see, it’s all in that first sentence. The prompt is already copied and ready to go.
When we changed some words around and use different descriptions of Roman Reigns in the lead-in sentence, we got these excellent results:
Undertaker
Another excellent quality of the DreamStudio AI is even though the prompt is the same each time with different wrestlers, it is so versatile. Each time you generate a photo, you get something new with distinct individual attributes, like the following:
Shawn Michaels
AI Shawn Michaels turned out looking like a neon God!
The Rock
Many of the AI-generated photos coming up are so immaculate and freakishly uncanny, like the following images of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson:
Jeff Hardy
Paul Heyman
Jake “The Snake” Roberts
Mick Foley
The following AI-Generated photos of Mick Foley are a sight to behold!
Terry Funk
Of course, we had to give “The Hardcore Icon” Terry Funk some AI love, too. The results were incredible.
The following AI image of Terry Funk and Mick Foley shaking hands is significant as it was the first time we could get two individuals to work well in a single shot:
The Compilation!
We made and loved many images, with too many to list. Our favorites are here, but we feel it wouldn’t be complete without a compilation featuring honorable mentions!
Below you’ll see the likes of Kevin Nash, AJ Styles, Mick Foley, Terry Funk, CM Punk, Rob Van Dam, Dave Bautista, Shawn Michaels, Vince McMahon, Chris Jericho, Charlotte Flair, Trish Stratus, Becky Lynch, and Alexa Bliss.
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