This new technology can be creative and freeing, allowing you to experiment and generate incredible images, voices, and animation at the touch of a button. Ultimately, AI tools allow us to create something incredibly personal and unique: your very own AI-generated character.
The development of AI characters goes far beyond a game; every character is created specifically based on your very own prompts and can be used in a huge variety of ways, from creating a virtual friend to developing an AI presenter for your YouTube channel.
But how exactly can you create your very own AI characters? What tools do you need, and what exactly can you do with your character once you've developed it? In this ultimate guide, we'll delve into all this, giving you a step-by-step process to bring your characters to life. Let's jump in!
First of all, what is an AI character, and why are they suddenly so popular?
Over the last year, AI has exploded into the mainstream, creating huge new opportunities for humans to expand their creative process and make menial tasks online faster. There's an AI tool for everything - from taking notes in meetings to generating dubs of your favorite videos.
AI characters are created when users generate a unique character virtually, using a mixture of free online tools and AI software. They have a myriad of uses, from personal entertainment to corporate customer service. AI characters are the next step of human interaction with computer systems, bringing a name, face, voice, and even personality to a computer.
Now you're filled in on the background, it's time to get creative.
Follow the steps below or in the video to generate your very own AI character.
The first thing you need to bring your AI characters to life? An image that truly replicates the character in your imagination. To create this, you need an AI image generator like Midjourney.
First, create a Discord account and log in. While Midjourney has a free account, it might not be working, so you might have to buy a paid subscription to get it set up.
Once you're in, though, start playing around with your prompts, and you can bring to life any mystical character.
Stuck for ideas?
The key to success when using AI generators is to have a specific, detailed prompt using language that the tool recognizes and can understand. If this is your first time using a tool like Midjourney, don't be afraid to experiment before you decide on your final image. It might take a moment to get your head around how the prompts work, so take your time.
With Midjourney, you can even experiment with backgrounds and situations, building out a story from the beginning. You can explore different color schemes and time periods or even play around creating characters inspired by your favorite books, games, and movies. It all comes down to the prompt that you input and the tweaks you make.
Once you're happy with your image, it's time to head over to the next step.
Now, let's build up a narrative around your character, complete with emotions, stories, and conversations.
To do this, we're heading over to ChatGPT - the world's most famous text generator. ChatGPT is a large language model that responds to the prompt, or input, that you feed it by generating unique text.
Let's start to add some background narrative to Freya, our newly-named Viking warrior princess we met over at Midjourney by asking ChatGPT to generate some dialogue.
At this moment, you'll notice that the prompt just asked for 100 words of text. It's best to start off with a small chunk of text and then make edits to the tone of voice and personality by adding to your prompt if you're not happy with what it first creates. Experiment with your prompt and ideas until you find the kind of dialogue you think suits your character.
Once you're happy with the outcome, you can use ChatGPT to generate dialogue that suits any situation. Whether you decide to create a YouTube script or simply tell a first-person narrative, ChatGPT can create whatever you have in mind.
Don't be afraid to let your creativity shine! Perhaps your character enjoys talking in rhyme or speaking in another language - it's all possible in the virtual world!
Now, it's time to bring your character off the page. Creating an AI-generated voice is the difference between a flat image and a dynamic, breathing character that you can interact with and enjoy.
There's only one tool for the best AI character voices: ElevenLabs.
ElevenLabs is the number one voice generation and cloning tool on the internet. With sleek, easy-to-use software and incredibly realistic voices, ElevenLabs allows you to experiment and tweak a voice to be the perfect fit for your character. Simply copy and paste your dialogue to the ElevenLabs Speech Synthesis program. Then, experiment with the different voices on offer. Once you're happy with it, you can download your audio as an MP3 file for use in the final step.
You can either generate a voice entirely from scratch, choose one of ElevenLabs pre-configurated voices, or even clone your own to bring your character to life. Plus, ElevenLabs is completely free to join and create, and paid plans start from just $5/month, making it one of the most affordable platforms available.
Finalmente, vamos a animar tu imagen, convirtiendo esa creación estática de Midjourney en un vídeo completamente animado. Para esto, estamos usando D-ID Studio, pero también puedes elegir entre una de lasmúltiples herramientas disponibles, incluyendo Deepbrain o Vyond.
Con una buena herramienta de animación, puedes jugar con la iluminación, música, duración del vídeo y escenas. Puedes ajustar tu animación para crear una narrativa o hacer una gran presentación, dando una nueva dimensión a tu personaje de IA y añadiendo el toque final a tu vídeo.
También puedes querer experimentar con la eliminación de fondos, especialmente si tu vídeo transcurre en varias escenas. Para esto, puedes usar un editor de vídeo, como CapCut, o un editor de imágenes, como Canva. Algunos creadores experimentan con diferentes fondos dependiendo de cómo 'sienten' sus personajes en cualquier momento o desde dónde están presentando. Sea lo que sea, puedes jugar con diferentes ubicaciones, fondos y ambientes con solo un clic.
En definitiva, hay una fiebre del oro con la IA, y tanto individuos como empresas se están subiendo al carro, experimentando con esta nueva tecnología.
Sin embargo, no todas las herramientas y software de IA son iguales. Si estás experimentando con un personaje de IA por diversión, puedes probar diferentes tipos de software para obtener el resultado que deseas. Si buscas un personaje profesional, quizás para un asistente de chat de atención al cliente único o para un canal de YouTube profesional, entonces querrás lo mejor de lo mejor.
La clave del éxito no es ocultar que estás usando IA, sino abrazarla. Sumérgete en la magia de esta tecnología innovadora con fantasía y jugando con características futuristas, y encontrarás una audiencia tan enganchada a la IA como tú.
¿Cómo hacerlo? Nuestra recomendación es elegir tus herramientas sabiamente: no hay nada más probable de romper el hechizo de la IA que una voz robótica, un diálogo extraño o una animación rara. Por eso hemos recomendadoMidjourney, ChatGPT, y D-ID Studio para imágenes, texto y animación excepcionales. Luego, cuando se trata de generación de voz, ElevenLabs siempre es la mejor opción.
Ya sea que busques crear un chatbot profesional para un servicio al cliente de otro nivel, vídeos de YouTube excepcionales que construyan una audiencia, o una versión de IA hiperrealista de tu personaje de juego favorito, ElevenLabs es la herramienta de creación de voces que tu proyecto necesita.
¿Y aún mejor? Es completamente gratis para probar con planes de pago que comienzan desde tan solo $1/mes para uso personal. ElevenLabs es una herramienta fantástica que facilita la creación de voces increíblemente humanas y a un precio excepcionalmente asequible. Comienza a experimentar con clonación de voz, generación y doblaje hoy mismo, y regístrate para crear tu cuenta gratuita con ElevenLabs ahora.
Crea voces naturales con nuestro sistema de Text to Speech (TTS), diseñado para narraciones de alta calidad, videojuegos, videos y accesibilidad. Voces expresivas, soporte multilingüe e integración con API facilitan escalar desde proyectos personales hasta flujos de trabajo empresariales.
Members of the ElevenLabs Impact Program team recently attended two cornerstone events in the speech and assistive technology field, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention and the Allied Professionals Forum hosted by the International Alliance of ALS/MND Associations.
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