speaking of having done work on terror star

I went in skeptical. I've tested enough AI companion apps to expect that uncanny plasticky look, the eyes that drift slightly wrong, the skin that reads like a render. So when I started generating photos of my character on sweetdream.ai, I kept waiting for the seams to show. They mostly didn't. The lighting behaves, the proportions stay consistent shot to shot, and the face I designed actually keeps being the same face instead of quietly becoming someone else.

What impressed me on closer inspection was the consistency. A lot of platforms can produce one good still and then fall apart the moment you ask for a second angle. SweetDream kept my AI girlfriend recognizable across casual selfies, golden-hour portraits, and more candid setups. That continuity is the part most tools quietly fail, and it's the difference between a gallery of strangers and a believable person.

ghost interaction babeyyyy!!

it's not gonna be that much in depth, mostly to avoid feature creep, but at least figured out the way it's going to be done internally

he's running his mouth for so long my gif recorder couldn't manage it. i guess it's a video, tho muted.

anyway main sprites done!

aldebaran isn't exactly stable.

while i have a very specific vision for the effect, i don't want to destroy the users' eyes. so there will be a way to select whether you want the simpler glitch effects or the full ones. the simpler ones are safer, if possibly unnerving. full ones use actual corrupted and edited images on top of the simpler effect, which is also faster.

i'll probably tweak it more and add a frame or two but i am also currently sick so i'm forced to slow down by the brain itself... maybe some other time.

oh yeah the balloon color scheme finally matches him, with some other tweaks on top as you can see. i may update aster's balloon again too.

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and so it begins...! (music isn't part of the ukagaka, it's I Have No Voice Actor And I Must Scream by VILF. i just felt it was appropriate)

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I couldn't resist the urge to edit the rays lol. the detail to the face isnt changed because that would be a bit Too much work than I can handle. it's minor enough to be negligible anyway

this included redoing all of the glitch sprites too! so I'm definitely not doing any more edits to the shell enough is enough

so in part because of that:

assistant software shell overhaul is happening now!!!