There are celebrities of all kinds that we remember in Spain with great affection for their achievements. However, most of us remember for their untimely deaths. One of the most famous examples is that of Michael Jackson, who died at the age of 50, in 2009. A digital artist has managed to recreate it using artificial intelligence what Jackson would look like if he were still alive today (and without operating).
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Not just Jackson, but many more. Your Instagram profile it’s full of celebrities reimagining themselves in a current context. We have examples like Diana of Walesdied in 1997 at the age of 36 or actor paul walkerfamous for the movie saga Fast and the Furious (At full throttle in Spain) who lost his life in a tragic accident in 2013, at the age of 40.
In his latest digital project, called As if nothing happened… (“As if nothing had happened in Spanish”), artist Alper Yesiltas from Turkey brings celebrities who lost their lives rather prematurely back to life, reimagining them today, with results that are both heart-warming and blood-chilling.
Michael Jackson en 2022
Yesiltas does not specify the exact steps of their creation, although he does explain how he used a combination of various apps and tools to recreate these celebrities. The idea is simple: answer the question “what would people look like photorealistically if some big events hadn’t happened to them.”
For 19 years, the Turkish lawyer and photographer has been collecting and taking photographs for all kinds of exhibitions. The results from him are absolutely brilliant, making these photographs look like the real thing. Something that, as Yesiltas himself explains in Bored PandaIt is the most difficult part of the project. “The moment I like the most is when I think the image in front of me looks realistic, as if it had been taken by a photographer.”
Michael Jackson, played by Alper Yesiltas.
On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson died due to intoxication from different drugs, these being propofol and benzodiazepine. He died at his house on North Carolwood Drive, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 50. Now, Yesiltas brings him back to life with a much more current appearance, with the signs of age marking his face.
many more celebrities
The collaborator of Bored Panda has done a job that brings together faces of all kinds. The list includes a John Lennon, rapper ‘2pac’ and even really recognizable faces, like Amy Winehouse’s. Other works include faces like el de Heath Ledgerfamous actor who gave life to Joker of Christopher Nolan o Selena Quintanillaa singer who died in 1995. Others also stand out, such as Kurt Cobain, singer of Nirvana o Jimi Hendrix
Freddie Mercury, represented by Alper Yesiltas.
Homicronous
However, his most impressive works are undoubtedly those that concern Heath Ledger and to the mythical Freddie Mercury, band singer Queen. Queen’s is the fifth image of the set of 10 photos that Yesiltas has published in Bored Panda and shows an older Mercury, with gray hair and glasses. The result is so convincing that it seems even real. In Bored Panda, as well as on his Instagram profile, Yesiltas collects the set of 10 images.
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