How to turn yourself into an action figure!

ARTICLE – You may have seen this type of image on your favorite social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, etc and wondered how people are making them. Don’t worry; I have your FOMO (fear of missing out) solution right here because I’m going to tell you step by step how you can create your own action figure toy image using ChatGPT, and it’s not going to cost you a dime.

Step 1:

Download the ChatGPT app for your phone or, as I prefer to do, go to chatgpt.com on your desktop computer. Then click the little + button below the prompt field. You do NOT need a paid account. But you’ll only get so many image uploads per day, so choose your images wisely.

Here’s the image I used to create my action figure. As you can see, it doesn’t need to be a picture of your whole body. Just your head and shoulders is fine.

Step 2:

Next, type in this prompt (feel free to cut/paste after editing it to suit your needs):

Photorealistic image of an action figure, packaged vertically in a premium collectible blister pack, seen from the front. The figure on the left is holding a Macbook, with blue jeans and Chuck Taylor sneakers. On the right, three accessories are arranged neatly in separate moulded compartments: iPhone, a multi-tool, a journal, and a toy robot. The frosted cardboard holder features a computer theme and the title “Julie The Gadgeteer” at the top. The plastic blister is shiny with light reflections. Cinematic, hyper-detailed, high-resolution product photography.

Then click the up arrow to submit the question/prompt.

Step 3:

Step 3 is easy… You just have to wait for the results. This can take as little as 30 seconds and as long as several minutes. It probably just depends on when you’re trying it.

Step 4:

Admire your do-it-yourself action figure… and if it doesn’t quite look like what you have in mind, feel free to follow up with more prompts to tell ChatGPT what needs to be modified. You can say “change the shirt color to blue”, “add icons to the iPhone”, “make the figure look 10 years younger”, or in my case, “please make me look less like Wesley Crusher” 😉

Here are a couple more examples of other action figures that I created using this method…

I used this picture of my sister to create her action figure. I told ChatGPT to use some of her favorite things – yarn and knitting needles, a goose statue, and a planner notebook for her accessories, and it nailed it!

It even used her striped shirt!

Here’s the image of my brother-in-law Greg.

He likes to collect Coca-Cola products, astronomy, and he’s into Cameros. He actually owns a pace car from the 1969 Indianapolis 500. I had a lot of trouble getting Greg’s prompt to work because I originally asked to have him holding a can of Coke and also to use a baby Yoda as one of the accessories. It kept telling me that it wasn’t able to generate the image because the request violated their content policies. I didn’t know if this was due to the Coke brand or the Star Wars reference. But I eventually was able to get it to generate the image you see above.

I was able to generate all three of these action figure images with multiple extra prompts to refine them before it finally told me that I had to wait 24 hours before I could upload another picture to create another action figure. So you can have a lot of fun with this for free. And when it tells you that you can’t do more, you can just wait a day and start again.

I hope you all enjoy creating action figures with this quick tutorial!

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