Classics never go out of style! "Journey to the West" is timeless, and so is "Sailor Moon"! Recently, a Xiaohongshu blogger "kilingvirgin" posted a dark fairy tale version of "Sailor Moon" that went viral. This video, which reinterprets anime characters with AI, received 22,000 likes and over 5,000 collections. Many netizens commented that this "live-action" version accurately captures the essence of the anime, evoking fond childhood memories.
So, can we replicate this style of video? I recently discovered a useful image analysis tool, and below, AIbase will use the image analysis tool + Flux + Keling to attempt to recreate this style of video~
Step 1: Use the image analysis tool to quickly generate keywords
First, to create an image, you need to brainstorm keywords. Today, AIbase will take a shortcut and use the image analysis tool to solve the keyword issue:
This tool is very effective; simply upload the image, click generate, and the detailed description of the image will appear in the right-hand box.
Keywords:
This image is a photograph of a young woman dressed as Sailor Moon. The woman has fair skin and long, voluminous blonde hair styled in twin tails, neatly tied with red ribbons. She is wearing a blue sailor uniform with a white collar and a large red bow in the center, typical of the character's attire. Her uniform is adorned with white gloves and a gold choker with a red gem in the center. She has a slender physique and is standing with her arms crossed in a contemplative pose, her gaze directed toward the camera. The background features a large, glowing crescent moon against a starry night sky, adding a mystical and celestial ambiance to the image. The overall aesthetic is reminiscent of the anime style, with a high level of detail and vivid colors, particularly the vibrant blue of her uniform and the golden accents. The photograph has a slight grainy texture, possibly indicating it was taken with a film camera, adding to the nostalgic and classic feel of the image. The lighting is soft, highlighting the subject and creating a warm, inviting atmosphere.
Copy these keywords and use them to generate an image in Flux:
During the image generation process, AIbase encountered a problem. Since this character is an anime IP, even with keywords like "live-action" and "photography," Flux still defaults to generating anime-style images.
Although the generated images are quite beautiful, they do not meet the requirements. We aim to recreate the dark fairy tale style of Sailor Moon, which is a live-action portrayal. After several failed attempts, AIbase decided to try a different tool~
Open the Ideogram website: https://ideogram.ai/
Ideogram successfully generated a live-action portrayal of Sailor Moon (it's sometimes a matter of the model), but the color tone was not close enough, requiring adjustments to the keywords, adding terms like "dark fairy tale style" and "1980s nostalgia."
After adding the above keywords, the background and lighting became darker, but it still felt like something was missing.
So, AIbase switched to another tool, the recently released V3 model of Playground, to see how it performs:
Using the same keywords, the images generated by Playground were more in line with the requirements in terms of background tone, although the realistic texture of the skin was slightly inferior to Ideogram. From the sidebar, it can be seen that the default model is SDXL.
Clicking on the image allows for editing functions such as adding, deleting, and high-definition zooming.
Step 2: Convert images to video
Once the images are ready, you can use Keling (or Luma) to convert the images into a video.
Open the Keling website: https://top.aibase.com/tool/keling-ai
Simply input the keywords: Girl standing in front of the moon, hair flowing in the wind.
The generated effect is as follows:
Step 3: Editing + Special Effects
The effect of converting images to video with Keling is decent, but due to the original image not being dark enough and lacking some noise, it's missing that certain something.
Here, AIbase directly uses Jianying to process it:
Add dark noise effects and then add music, the effect is as follows:
Does it have that certain something? Feel free to give it a try if you're interested~
More past tutorial content can be found here: https://www.aibase.com/zh/course