Zelda: Wind Waker's Outset Island Brought To Life By Neural Network AI
A fan of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker has leveraged AI to recreate a life-like version of the game's Outset Island. While this piece is slightly more out-there, digital fan art inspired by this seminal, beloved series is nothing new, with a recent example being the Minecraft build themed after Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Wind Waker was, in many ways, a significant departure from the traditional Legend of Zelda formula. While previous and subsequent titles such as Ocarina of Time and Twilight Princess attempted to approximate realistic visuals by making use of more grounded art styles, Wind Waker swung in the opposite direction with its cel-shaded graphics and bright color palette. More so than any other Zelda game before or after it, Wind Waker focused on sea-bound exploration, with players traveling from island to island on The Kind of Red Lions, a sentient sailboat. Thanks to this nautical backbone, the game features several landmasses, both large and small, that players can investigate at will. This flexible approach to exploration makes the game tangentially similar to modern entries in the Zelda franchise like Breath of the Wild and its upcoming sequel, although Wind Waker is much more connected to series conventions by comparison.
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While Wind Waker stands out from other Zelda games, fans of the franchise make unique pieces of art inspired by it all the same. A recent piece has come courtesy of Reddit user Datee27, who shared an image of a realistic Outset Island on the Zelda subreddit. While the image looks like a photograph, it is actually computer-generated via NVIDIA's Gaugan neural networking, which is an artificial intelligence program used to create
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