---
title: "This Neural Network Turns You Into a Zombie"
description: "A new website uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to turn a picture of anyone's face into a zombie, just in time for Halloween."
date: "2020-10-28"
modified: "2020-10-28"
authors:
  - name: "Dan Robitzski"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/danrobitzski"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/neural-network-turns-you-into-zombie"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "artificial intelligence"
  - "gan"
  - "halloween"
  - "the digest"
  - "zombie"
---

# This Neural Network Turns You Into a Zombie

![A new website uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to turn a picture of anyone's face into a zombie, just in time for Halloween.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/neural-network-turns-you-into-zombie.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Makemeazombie.com\</em\>*

## Patient Zero

A new website uses a generative adversarial network (GAN), a type of artificial intelligence algorithm, to zombify your selfies.

The site, [makemeazombie.com](<https://makemeazombie.com/>), works like [similar GAN projects](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anime-character>): Upload a picture of your or anyone else's face, and let it get to work*.* It's like the high-effort version of an Instagram face filter, just in time for a Halloween season where parties are being replaced by Zoom sessions.

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/human2Zombie-1.jpg>)
*I've never looked better.*

## Spooky Scary

The algorithm itself was trained on about 300 pictures of people wearing zombie masks or makeup that indie developer Josh Brown Kramer took from the internet, [according to *Synced*](<https://syncedreview.com/2020/10/27/ai-halloween-avatars-stylegan2-generator-reveals-your-inner-zombie/>). With the idea of what a Halloween zombie should look like, the algorithm then focuses on mapping the face shape of pictures people upload and mapping zombified traits onto their features.

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/human2Zombie.jpg>)
*The website automatically crops your face, so full portraits end up looking rough.*

As a result, [the output](<https://twitter.com/MakeZombie>) looks like someone (skillfully!) slapped on a lot of Halloween makeup. It might not cut it for "The Walking Dead," but it could save us having to mask up for a trip to Spirit Halloween.

https://twitter.com/jbrownkramer/status/1320767332378120193

**READ MORE:** [AI Halloween Avatars! StyleGAN2 Generator Reveals Your Inner Zombie](<https://syncedreview.com/2020/10/27/ai-halloween-avatars-stylegan2-generator-reveals-your-inner-zombie/>) \[*Synced*\]

**More on GANs:** *[This AI Draws Horrifying New Pokémon](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/neural-network-pokemon>)*

## Author
Dan Robitzki is a senior reporter for Futurism, where he likes to cover AI, tech ethics, and medicine. He spends his extra time fencing and streaming games from Los Angeles, California.

### Author social links  
[Twitter](<https://x.com/danrobitzski>)