Avatarverse: interview a person into existence, approve them in writing first

What it does

• An avatar is a person, not a picture: the same face across every campaign.
• A brand can invent a person, or upload photographs of someone it has the right to use.
• Once created, an avatar can be chosen when creating an image, down to which look, and its locked angles go in as the reference.
• A look is the same person dressed for somewhere else — gym, festive, college — made against the locked face.

How it works

• There are two ways in: describe them in your own words, typed or spoken, or pick as you go with five quick taps — who, how old, where from, skin tone, and a name.
• “Fill in the rest” reads the description and fills in the details as text only. Nothing is drawn, and every detail is checked before anything is.
• Everything the product fills in wears an “our guess” tag until the brand touches it, so the brand's words and the product's guesses never look alike.
• The whole person is checked as one editable table of details, and the completeness bar counts what is filled rather than estimating it.
• A character sheet is written in prose from the answers and the brand corrects it in its own words. Every photograph after it is built from exactly those words.
• The base likeness is four photographic angles — front, three-quarter left, three-quarter right, profile — with the front made first and the other three built from it. The same tier draws every later look, because a face redrawn at a different one is a different face.
• A turntable is twelve photographs, thirty degrees apart, that the brand drags to rotate. It is photographs rather than a 3D model on purpose, so the camera only goes where a frame was made.
• “Change one thing” alters what was asked on one picture and keeps the face, pose, lighting and background as they were; one angle can be photographed again on its own.

What it never does, and what it asks first

• Before any picture is made, the brand is asked what will run and what it costs. Declining runs and charges nothing.
• Uploading a real person's photographs requires the brand to confirm it has their permission for advertising, and that confirmation is recorded with a date.
• Every photograph is asked for as a real human being — never a render, a cartoon, a doll or airbrushed plastic.
• “Say it” uses the browser's own speech recognition. Nothing of the product's listens.

Where it stands today

• Avatarverse is open to brands for images only. Video and Creators are paused.
• The written stages — describe, check, character — work today. The image stages (the four angles, looks, the turntable and edits) are deployed, but the image-making capability behind them is still being switched on for workspaces, so no avatar has yet been photographed.
• Avatar prices are placeholders and the app labels them provisional. Nothing has yet been published to the platform avatar library.

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