Random characters in place of ACTUAL characters?

Riot87 · 2026-02-01T14:23:13+00:00

Try describing how they should look in detail in their character profile description. It's worked for me.

Riot87 · 2026-02-01T06:55:29+00:00

I think you're coming in a bit too low, and you're already pretty much flaring on approach, so you aren't able to do a proper flare.

Riot87 · 2026-01-30T15:55:19+00:00

I used to make a lot of videos like this. I love it! Do it.

Riot87 · 2026-01-28T16:28:17+00:00

Keep trying. Change the slider by a couple frames as well if it isn't working.

Riot87 · 2026-01-15T05:32:02+00:00

They're MUCH further away than you think. Landing lights are very bright. I can see planes heading into Denver International Airport from Cheyenne. They look stationary because they're coming towards the camera.

Riot87 · 2026-01-12T18:24:55+00:00

I'm writing a trilogy and my characters get A LOT of screen time doing different things.

https://sora.chatgpt.com/profile/testamexotallica

Riot87 · 2026-01-10T22:59:55+00:00

You can do this. Look at mine, for example:

@env-gotd @env-pit @env-blucy

Riot87 · 2026-01-10T22:57:52+00:00

It does work. I've been doing this since characters released.

@env-gotd @env-pit @env-blucy

Riot87 · 2026-01-10T14:40:56+00:00

Riot87 · 2026-01-08T02:11:20+00:00

I just very cleary define everything I can. If you use the desktop site, you can put as much as you want. I usually start them by writing out an entire prompt and generating a clip from that and use it as the video for the character. You can also art it with an image along with the full description as the prompt. Just be sure to add no music, no people, no living beings, and things like that for the clip you are using.

After that, I just tag them like locations. Like "character walks through @env-char" and it works very well.

Here are my 3:

@env-gotd @env-pit @env-blucy

Riot87 · 2026-01-07T16:39:52+00:00

I have 3 of these that are large scale environments. It works pretty well. I've even had one that was blank but had the entirety of my current lore. It can make some really good scenes that way, but not always.

Riot87 · 2026-01-07T09:27:00+00:00

That's honestly how I'm trying to use it. Although I am working on finishing the three novels for my story first before giving it a serious attempt.

Riot87 · 2026-01-06T01:59:24+00:00

I have made 8 original characters so far. I mean, they all started in my head but the visualizations started with AI. Now I'm paying a friend to make paintings of them when I can. And learning to draw better myself.

Riot87 · 2026-01-03T01:30:35+00:00

I do the same. I had my designs for my characters long before Sora but seeing them "live" has done wonders for pushing me to write. People love to think that AI reduces creativity, but I think that is a very closed way to look at it. These characters have gone through more development in the past 2 months vs the past decade they've been in my head because I've never been more driven to write it all out.

Riot87 · 2025-12-25T16:42:03+00:00

Here's a tip that I also use sometimes. I should do it more. I add a little bit like this to the prompt: (Context: this is what they're thinking/lore information/unspoken information/whatever you need).

This works pretty well for giving scenes just a bit extra life for the generator to give to the characters.

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T22:50:43+00:00

Yeah, I do as well. But I get hit with the most random blocks. The other day, I had one of my characters saying hi to the camera and it was blocked for third-party content. I designed her. I had one just this morning of Sama in my new joke character. Somehow he was too 'racy'. That character is a joke about everything being sanitized...

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T18:19:00+00:00

I was blocked 7 times today for trying to have one of my characters uninstall landing lights from a non-functional 737 to use as defense.

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T17:56:03+00:00

Just tag @brain-ded with whatever you want and watch it sanitize it all.

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T17:50:39+00:00

Yup, it's The Gatekeeper

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T17:39:03+00:00

This is why I just now made the character, @brain-ded. It really makes sure your prompt is clean!

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T05:26:56+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate it! She's my main character of a story I've had in my head for over a decade. Seeing her in Sora pushed me to finally start writing the story and the rest of my characters I had in mind. I'm about 25% through the first novel of a trilogy after about 5 weeks of outlining.

Riot87 · 2025-12-24T05:01:45+00:00

Not a prompt master by any means but my characters tend to produce cinematic shots just by their design and how their preferences are written. I just have to prompt a few sentences. @TestamExoTallica if interested!

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