Mike the3DGuy

Release 2 Update 25

Added 2023-11-26 19:08:08 +0000 UTC

Last week I guessed I had about 15 still images left to do. Turns out it was more like 28! Anyway, the last one is done now. Whew. This week I'll be completeing sound effects and music, and then I've got those two animations to finalize and render. That part I'm honestly not looking forward to. I decided to roll with Nina's bitch-mode here since, as you can see, she's smoking a cigar.

This won't come into effect until Release 3, but there's a new feature of ElevenLabs software (11Labs is the AI voice generator I use). It's called "Voice to Voice". it just came out and for some reason it never occurred to me that I might find it useful, but reading about it makes me realize it might be the magic bullet to perfect individual lines of dialogue. Sometimes I have to really poke and prod at ElevenLabs to get to inflection and feel I want out of a line, which I do by putting some words in quotation marks, some in all caps, carefully tweaking the pauses between phrases, and also adding suggestive words at the beginning that I later edit out, such as "Oh that is SO funny!" before "Hahaha!" to generate laughter from the voice, or "Spoken cruelly and intimately" for example. But with Voice to Voice, I can say the line of dialogue myself, exactly the way I want it spoken, upload the audio file, and it will just have the selected character voice repeat what I said the same way! If it really works that way, and does it well, then that's awesome! I'll have to test it out though.