Artist uses AI to imagine what popular cartoon characters would look like in real life

They are some of the most popular cartoon characters ever created and known the world over - but just what would the likes of Ned Flanders, Rapunzel and Moana look like in real life? Well, the images below offer a glimpse after being created by a digital artist who used artificial intelligence (AI) to help imagine what a host of characters from Disney films to The Simpsons might be like if they were'human'. Hidreley Leli Diao, from Brazil, who grew up watching The Simpsons, Hanna-Barbera shows, and Disney animations, experimented with a piece of software that creates photo-realistic portraits of people who do not actually exist. A digital artist from Brazil has used artificial intelligence software to create photo-realistic portraits showing what popular cartoon characters might look like in real life. FaceApp is a photo-morphing app that uses what it calls artificial intelligence and neural face transformations to make alterations to faces. The app can use photos from your library or you can snap a photo within the app.