thanks for the traffic everyone -- definitely hitting rate limits on gemini already so if it doesn't work please give it a try later in the day or try the example.
Apologies for the inconvenience! If anyone on the gemini team can help out, please lmk (email in bio).
Thanks! A few friends have starting using the generated digis as profile pictures because of how recognizable they are. I was definitely surprised at how good the models had gotten.
Thanks! Like another user commented below, I think the appeal of the pixel art sprites is that at a lower level of detail it can feel really accurate. 10 different real life red jackets can all end up as the same pixel art representation but each person would recognize it as their jacket! It feels like a form of compression.
On prompting, you can get most of the way there in AI studio on Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental by uploading a picture and asking for "a high quality detailed pixel art sprite of this character." Most of the backend annoyance here was iterating to improve prompt adherence (characters not facing the same way, outfits changing between frames, etc).
Thanks! There are some content filtering rules via Gemini, but if you got an error on Trump I'm guessing it's an issue with the image generation rate limit getting overloaded.