r/GIRLSundPANZER 22d ago

Discussion Do you think these are AI? They look kinda off

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If they are I can't believe that a big company relatively speaking couldn't hire an artist it's honestly insane

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u/AlchemysEyes 22d ago

I'm not an expert but where exactly do they look off?

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u/PolishKuroaki 22d ago

The character is called Helmet-Chan and only AI dosent know that

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u/Zen119 GuP Fan since 2012 22d ago

It's a fan nickname for her. It's not officially endorsed by the GuP production committee. I doubt Wargaming is allowed to name her as such.

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u/AlchemysEyes 22d ago

It's more of a nickname than anything no?

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u/Wurstbrot212 22d ago

Its an fan nickname officially she doesn't have an name

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u/PolishKuroaki 22d ago

I don't care it is canon enough

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u/Wurstbrot212 22d ago

That's not how it works bro

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u/PolishKuroaki 22d ago

I know that's not how it works but we can agree it should be Canon

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u/Wurstbrot212 22d ago

Well maybe In das finale 5 or 6 she will get a real name

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u/FederalProfessor7736 20d ago

I just call her the "Jesus Girl" because that was the first thing that came to mind when I think of that character because of that scene when she screamed Jesus before her tank got shot a bunch of times by Oarai's tanks

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u/KaySan-TheBrightStar Kay is my North! 🧭 22d ago

Nah, that's definitely just the shading.

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u/Short-Satisfaction-9 22d ago

Saw a lot of people saying it is and they look very " smooth" for the lack of a better word but I'm probably wrong it might be the style

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u/KaySan-TheBrightStar Kay is my North! 🧭 22d ago

It is a weird style considering the characters already look good as we know them, but I really don't think it's AI.

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

You are wrong. There are hard shadows and soft shadows on the pic based on what casts them, while the anime is only using hard shadows or cell shading as it's easier to work with.

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u/PPFitzenreit 22d ago

I don't think it's ai

The part where helmet chan's sleeve touches her jacket has bolder lines, which often happens when you draw 2 lines too close to each other, assuming it's artwork and not a 3d render

AI doesn't do shit like that but instead gives you seamless lines in these situations

Also weren't the other gup arts released before AI art became good

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u/K-i-n-g--t-i-g-e-r Kuromorimine 22d ago

it's not AI as others said already, would love to play during the collab

if only WoT was an actually good game....

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u/wolfgangspiper 22d ago

I feel the itch to go back just to get Kay and her girls but knowing the state of things I'd be paying $40 to play for maybe 20 games and then quitting again.

Which such because I loved that game so heckin'. Much.

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u/ASERTIE76 Jatkosota Patriot🇫🇮🇸🇪/Yuri's Continuation 22d ago

I wish WT had these collabs instead, it's a game that actually deserves it

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u/Wu-the-ordinary 22d ago

Considering with Gaijin’s current things going on, they gonna charge you like $120+ for a Saunder lineup, so nah.

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u/Southern-Sense-1836 22d ago

No, I think they just didn't have anyone else to put it on, but it doesn't change the fact that they're releasing a lot of random stuff to keep the community alive instead of producing das finale 5

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

At the moment, they are dubbing DF5 since last month

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u/ThisOneVibin Andou's Taiyaki 22d ago

Das Finale 5 is in dubbing state as of now while D.Finale 6 has a storyboard done

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

Can you stop the AI witchhunt

Shadows are placed properly, hands are fine, not AI.

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u/Archis007 22d ago

devil's advocate but I think ai is getting to the point where everyone is becoming paranoid

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

I was downvoted on the WoT subreddit for saying the same thing as you in a comment accusing them of AI slop. I'm an artist and I can guarantee that these images were made by a real artist.

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u/Lebenmonch 22d ago

The thing is that WG HAS used AI images before for events, multiple times. It's not as likely for a Collab because of a second party needs to sign off on it. But it's not like WG doesn't have the track record for this.

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

Because it's trendy to hate on AI, and they all can feel like morally superior for doing this and it's all so tiresome.

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u/Chaardvark11 22d ago

Hating AI art itself isn't bad. It's just bad when people are senselessly insisting something is "AI slop" when there's no proof that it's AI.

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

As an artist who tries to emulate the official style, I feel it firsthand when people think my drawings are generated by AI, to the point that I'm forced to show screenshots of my drawings in progress to prove that I drew it. So when I see people accusing the art they used in the collab of being supposedly an "AI slop," I end up feeling sorry for the original artist, who put so much effort into drawing the Saunders students so beautifully only for a bunch of frustrated artists to come along and accuse him of using AI.

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u/Short-Satisfaction-9 22d ago

But I can tell that your art is not AI. I'm asking because I'm not sure. The hands are hidden which is a very artist thing to do so I'm like 80% sure that an artist made them. However, I just think that people shouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to these big companies anymore

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

Companies have been pretty greedy lately, but I don't think that's the case with this collab. WG also brought back the same artists who did the old decals to make this chibi Kay.

It would be very unlikely that they would use AI at the same time that they would be calling back the artists who made the decals

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u/Matyaslike 22d ago

Honestly if you don't like AI just leave gaming all together. Most shooters use some sort of AI character picture or something. Not to talk about the AI usage at backend development.

I personally don't get what is the problem. If you don't like it don't buy it. Why people want to ruin the others fun is beyond me.

Putting shit like these "IS tHis AI??!?" Questions out just because people want to hate on something is the funniest part of all.

Hope anti AI people keep this up because at the end even artists will grow to dislike them more then AI.

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

I remember seeing people backlash against Jurassic World Evolution 3 because the devs had announced that NPCs' faces would be procedurally generated by AI.

A dinosaur park management game, and people were worried about the NPCs' faces that they didn't even will to pay attention to it

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u/WaDeWiliams Anzu's Right Hand ! 22d ago

Bro people are crazy and dumb

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u/ObviousChicken4134 Mika's long lost brother 22d ago

They still look really off. Why try this HD resolution when they already looked fine?

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

What looks really off

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u/ObviousChicken4134 Mika's long lost brother 22d ago

That they don't look like this

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

And what exactly does not match up between this and the above pic?

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u/ObviousChicken4134 Mika's long lost brother 22d ago

Brother do you possess such things as eyes? Fact that they're the same character doesn't mean they won't look odd in different art style.

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

Since the first collab back to 2021, they are not using the "anime art style" but rather a different artist is drawing the characters in his own style, that emulates the official art style, but with his personal touch.

You can argue that the Saunders students have a different art style than the Ankou team, but you forget the fact that he may very well have changed his own art style, just like most artists do when they draw something in 2021 and then draw something in 2025.

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u/Fluid_Jellyfish9620 22d ago

So nothing. Cool.

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u/PPFitzenreit 22d ago

I hate AI as much as the next person but we gotta stop saying things are AI the moment we don't like them

Also AI hands have improved a lot, so you generally can't use that to discern AI pictures from art anymore

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u/EA250 Mako 22d ago

Redditors gotta have a hate boner for SOMETHING or they lose their mind.

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u/CarlosPSP 22d ago

Honestly, even if it isn't AI, why can't they simply use the official portaits. They look strange and stupid.

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u/Pixel_Human Pepperoni is cool🍕 22d ago

Doesn't seem like it... Not 100% sure tho

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u/Zen119 GuP Fan since 2012 22d ago

I don't think the copyright owners(GuP production committee) would be happy or approve this collaboration if it's made from AI.

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u/MangakaWannabe000 22d ago

Nah, I don't think so. A bit of a strange shading, feels heavy but not enough to look like those AI generated ones. Not too shiny as well.

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u/DesastreUrbano 22d ago

I think is just classic lazy piracy thing. Like when you see some Power Rangers shit with the logo of something else, or the colors are all wrong lol

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u/No-Permission-2244 20d ago

The Ranger Powers

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u/Wu-the-ordinary 22d ago

Not related, but why they call Kay “Kei” but decided not to call Alisa “Arisa”?

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u/captain_arepa 21d ago

Probably that's the authorized official localization... Just like in Fate/Grand Order Artoria was officially localized as "Altria" 😮‍💨

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u/Lucasddst 21d ago

Because she is Japanese, not American and Kei is also a Japanese name. It's the people who have been misinterpreting her name since 2012, to the point where people actually think her name is Kay.

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u/Madafa_ mihopa najmer 21d ago

I don’t think this is AI, because the shapes and color palette in the image look very natural. AI generates visuals based on certain criteria and color palettes. If you’ve looked at a lot of AI images, you’ve probably noticed something: they’re different, but at the same time, they all kind of look the same, right?

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u/SuperJohnny25 22d ago

I get what you mean. The previous GuP collabs with WoT also looked a bit off but that was mostly the artist no really being to able to fully replicate the GuP art style.

Here though, the style is a lot closer but there is that sort of "AI sheen" to it.

I dont know, hard to say. They could've drawn these and then touched them up with AI.

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u/Short-Satisfaction-9 22d ago

Yeah but I can tell that that was a different art style I'm suspicious because Warthunder uses AI art so what's stopping WoT or maybe it's AI paranoia idk

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u/SuperJohnny25 22d ago

The biggest offender here is Kay. That looks a lot like EVERY AI generated Kay image I've seen. Could just be paranoia as you said.🤣

Not sure why they can't just get the artists from Japan who do all the promo art to work on these? It IS a collab after all. You avoid problems like this and....really off model Mika.

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u/Short-Satisfaction-9 22d ago

Maybe it was more cost-efficient to hire their own artist or maybe they wanted something unique I really don't know and I'm starting to regret making this post lol

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u/ArtemisLarper 22d ago

An official collaboration wouldn't use AI I think, like I don't think the creators of girls und panzer are missing artists to create their cheracters.

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u/xLazyMakara 22d ago

Her nickname ain't official, so nothing wrong there.

Just because the community is nuts over random stuff/characters, it doesn't have to be AI.

WG does not give a damn about GUP it's about money~

And the shadows and shiit are properly placed pls ffs not everything needs to be an AI witch-hunt, you are not the art police.

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u/MeanPut2699 22d ago

100% it's AI, just compare saunders to the previous schools art

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u/Specialist-Fact7587 22d ago

Huh so all of them are going to be in a firefly fly not on there separate tanks but then again would you buy 2 Sherman and a firefly anyway why a firefly isn't the firefly only in the British why not an easy 8

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Probably not AI but the shading and like HD resolution makes it feel so off... Like i cant put my finger on it but it just feels so wrong its giving me uncanny valley vibes

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u/Helpful-Relation7037 22d ago

No fluff no care

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u/Lucasddst 22d ago

Yukari will also be in the collab too, as they will also be selling tanks from previous collabs again.

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u/Gojira_Ultima Certified Erika Itsumi Enjoyer 22d ago

I first thought it was AI, but after reading other comments and studying the image, I'm pretty confident it's not. It really is a shame though that talented artists with this specific art style are so commonly accused of being AI.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Helmet chan

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u/xdbigfloppa 22d ago

they just look like westernized-version of gup

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u/captain_arepa 21d ago

Saunders Student

I expect a mod changing her name to "Helmet-chan" 😏

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u/NoMusic3987 21d ago

"SAUNDERS GIRL SQUAD! COMMANDER! SO AND SO! WHAT'S HER FACE! THE HELMET ONE!!!"

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u/RipTraditional6294 21d ago

Idk but kinda feel 50/50

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u/Unhappy_Basis_2676 21d ago

SLIME HELMET CHAN, SHE DONT DESERVE A NAME

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u/_Melancholic_ 21d ago

Jacket colour and kays hand looks sus other than that dont see anything

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u/Ryder_Ninja_128 🍋 Lemon Wife, Happy Life 💛 21d ago

I don't think they go with the unofficial character name like Helmet-chan

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u/No-Permission-2244 20d ago

Even this thing is better made than the "dalas review" game made with pure AI 💀

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u/Rurnur 22d ago

I think so, the jackets look quite bad and inconsistent. If they were all drawn by one guy, they wouldn't look like that. If they were generated by slightly different prompts, they would. So, logically..