Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles about people using nano-banana to make figures of real people, anime characters, and game characters. Riding the trend, I tried making figures of Seaside cloudworks characters too. But Gemini is really excellent.
Let’s get started on creating the figure.
I’d like to try using Ayase and Kamiya. First, Ayase. Since nano-banana became available on Gemini today, I’ll run it on Gemini. I created it by reviewing only a small part of the prompt I found online, keeping most of it as-is. The creation speed is remarkably fast.
The texture is so lifelike, it’s like the original image has been transformed into a 3D object—truly astonishing. You’d swear it’s the real thing, but this is actually a generated image, right?
Next is Kamiya. I tried this with an image of Kamiya sitting in a chair. It’s possible to add poses or chairs for more creativity. First, I had ChatGPT generate an image of someone sitting in a chair, then used Gemini to generate the result shown below.
This chair might seem a bit too luxurious for the office, but it suits Kamiya-san perfectly. You could totally see a figure like this.
I think the sense of presence is truly remarkable, as if you’re actually there in that place.
ChatGPT seems to be heading in a slightly different direction when it comes to realism.
I had ChatGPT do the same thing using the same prompt based on Ayase’s image.
ChatGPT can do something similar too. The result was that the woman on the package looked good, but Ayase as a figure looked a bit older—or rather, it felt really realistic, like this is what she’d actually look like if she were a real person.
Based on my expectations this time, I thought Gemini was closer. Give it a try!