What's up, Carat crew here. 🙂 Today: an AI that put a 23-year-old game on an iPhone, dreamy pastel tennis shots from Midjourney 8.2, World Cup star cards, and anime action scenes. At the end, a prompt for framing your fave inside a hand heart.
Fable 5 put a 23-year-old game on an iPhone
ⓒ @ammaar
Anthropic's top model Fable 5 got a 23-year-old PC game running on an iPhone. Someone ported the 2003 title 'Command & Conquer' to iPhone and iPad.
It's not an emulator. They recompiled the 2003 game engine for iPhone, and got campaigns and touch controls working too. The developer pulled it off in a single day with Fable 5 (Claude Code), and open-sourced all the code.
The fun part: the person who built it is a Google DeepMind designer. Making it with a rival's model still blew up, past 6,900 likes.
📌 3 things worth knowing today
1. Midjourney 8.2's dreamy pastel tennis shots
ⓒ @gizakdag
Midjourney's next version, the 8.2 preview, is buzzing among creators. One creator's tennis shots made with 8.2 passed 13,000 likes.
Pastel pinks and greens, symmetrical framing, and ornate detail make it look like a film set. 8.2 is still a preview, not an official release, yet the look already has people hyped.
You can make images with this kind of mood using Midjourney on Carat too. 👉 Create on Carat
2. Wait, AI drew these World Cup star cards?
ⓒ @gizakdag
With the 2026 World Cup season here, AI-drawn football star trading cards caught eyes. Messi, Mbappe, Haaland, and Ronaldo were turned into ornate illustrated posters.
Each player gets their club kit plus mountains, stars, and decorative borders, styled like collectible cards. They're hand-drawn illustrations, not photo composites, so they feel like real fan merch.
You can make cards like this with your favorite player or star on Carat too. 👉 Create on Carat
3. Cinematic anime action, made with AI
ⓒ @aimikoda
The animation quality of AI-made anime action has jumped. A creator shared a 'sakuga' style preset. Sakuga is when an anime pours extra effort into one scene so it moves with unusually polished animation.
With flame effects and speed lines, it builds climax-fight-scene moments. The workflow sets the scene with ChatGPT image, then adds motion as video.
You can make anime-style scenes with ChatGPT image on Carat too. 👉 Create on Carat
🧪 Today's prompt
Frame your fave inside a hand heart
ctrlv_prompt shared this prompt on TikTok. Drop in two photos and it puts you right next to your fave inside a hand-heart frame.
ⓒ @ctrlv_prompt
Here's what we made with it on Carat.
Generated with Nano Banana 2 on Carat
Create one photo with these two people.
Place hands right in front of the camera lens, with focus on the faces of the people behind. This throws the hands in the foreground out of focus and maximizes the sense of depth.
The key pose and staging: use both hands right in front of the lens to form a big heart shape. The blurred heart-shaped hands act as a kind of "frame," creating a frame-in-frame effect that naturally pulls the viewer's eye to the two people in the center. The hands should take up only about 20% of the total area. In the center of the frame, the two people rest their heads together affectionately so a strong sense of closeness and bond comes through.
Use a 3:4 ratio and keep the faces as close to the original photos as possible. Keep the background mostly out of view with a tight close-up, and let the small bit of visible background show a clear blue sky. The people's faces should fill about 80% of the whole image. Do not alter the people's faces.
Photo grading: Warm color temperature (amber/sepia tint): cover the whole image in a deep, warm yellow or sepia tone for a sun-faded feel. Raise the color temperature noticeably.
Split toning: add yellow or cream to the highlights, and a very faint teal (cyan) or blue to the shadows. This creates the color separation typical of faded film.
Soft contrast: gently lower the contrast. In particular, lift the darkest black point slightly for a "faded black" look.
Film grain: add fine grain across the image to remove digital smoothness and give it an analog film texture.
Soft highlights and exposure: set the exposure bright but keep the highlights soft, not harsh, for an overall bright, dreamy mood.
Do not alter the faces. Generate the image keeping each person's face, expression, hair, and styling exactly as in the photos I send. Please keep this in mind.
Make yours on Carat right now. 👉 Create on Carat
That's it for today. AI put an old game on an iPhone, and turned out everything from Midjourney shots to anime action. Give the hand-heart prompt a try, and see you tomorrow. ☺️