create-virtual-influencer

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create-virtual-influencer

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Build a complete, reusable identity kit for a new faceless AI virtual influencer, modeled on a real reference creator, ready for later slideshow/content production. Produces the persona doc, voice pack, world bible, master reference + 5-view character sheet + 8-panel face sheet, hairstyle/earring/makeup look sheets, an outfit-variant library, prop sheets, and a verified-real scene-reference library — all indexed and identity-consistent. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create a new virtual influencer, faceless persona, or AI creator/character from a reference account; 'make a character like @so-and-so,' 'design a new persona for our account,' 'build the identity kit/character bible,' 'create the face sheet and outfits for a virtual influencer,' or spin up a synthetic creator before producing content. This is the CHARACTER-CREATION half; producing the actual slideshows is a separate downstream skill (virtual-influencer-slideshows).

Create Virtual Influencer

Build a complete, reusable character identity kit for a new faceless AI persona, modeled on a reference creator, ready for later slideshow production. This is a one-time setup per character; producing content decks is a separate step — do not produce slideshows here.

What you need from the user

• The reference creator to model — a TikTok handle or URL — and a one-line concept for the new character (or an instruction to design one).
• Any existing personas the new character must NOT resemble (name + folder), so the new one is clearly differentiated on every axis.
• The base working directory. Follow the conventions already established there.

If a real reference photo of the intended face is supplied, use it as the identity anchor in step 4; otherwise generate the face from the appearance spec.

Expertise and tools

Adopt the expertise of a brand strategist, a character/casting designer, and an AI-image art director. Use the consistent-characters skill for the image method and the persona-image-curation skill for the scene-library method. Tools: an Apify TikTok scraper (to study the reference), an image-generation tool that accepts reference images (for all character imagery), and ImageMagick (for contact sheets).

Steps, in order

1. Study the reference. Scrape the reference creator's profile — bio, signature line, follower and engagement stats, a sample of recent posts — and extract the formula that makes it work: credibility angle, niche promise, content structure, aesthetic. Record it.

2. Design the persona. Invent a fictional person differentiated from any named existing persona on every axis: name, handle, display name, age, birthplace, location, education, career history, backstory, why they create, niche + point of view. Give them a LOCKED appearance spec — build, skin, eyes, brows, hair with a default styling that never changes color or length, signature accessories worn in every image, makeup, a recurring prop — and a distinct voice. Write persona-<slug>.md with a bio table, backstory, the locked appearance spec, and a voice section.

3. Write the voice pack (<slug>-voice.md): register in one paragraph; mechanics (capitalization, punctuation, line breaks, emoji whitelist); a vocabulary whitelist; a banned-tells lint that strips AI/formal tells AND any slang or register that belongs to another persona in the project, so the voices never converge; and an exemplar bank of captions and slide lines. Derive it from the real reference corpus, not from memory.

4. Create the master reference image. Either generate a full-length, front-view photo on a pure white seamless background from the appearance spec, or, if a real reference photo is supplied, use that as the identity anchor. Generate in 9:16. Save as <slug>-reference.jpg.

5. Build the 5-view character sheet using the consistent-characters composition method — a five-panel model sheet (extreme close-up, both profiles, full front, full back) carrying the reference identity exactly. Save as <slug>-character-sheet.jpg.

6. Build the 8-panel face sheet — the definitive identity anchor: four camera angles plus four expressions, identity identical in every panel. Save as <slug>-face-sheet.jpg. This is the primary reference attached to every future generation.

7. Build the look sheets, each anchored on the face sheet: a hairstyles sheet (base hair in six to eight stylings, the locked hair never changing color or length), an earrings sheet (six to eight options, default first), and a makeup sheet (about five looks including a bare-faced option). Save as <slug>-hairstyles-sheet.jpg, <slug>-earrings-sheet.jpg, <slug>-makeup-sheet.jpg.

8. Build the outfit-variant kit. Write an outfit-variants prompt pack () with a shared scaffold and one block per look, mapped to the scene archetypes the account will need. Generate each look as a text-free full-body reference on white — identity from the face sheet plus the character sheet — and 5-view sheets for the three or four highest-recurrence looks. Save into . Keep a palette consistent with the persona.

Done means

The character folder contains a persona doc, voice pack, world bible, reference + character + face + hairstyles + earrings + makeup sheets, an outfit-refs library with priority 5-view sheets, prop sheets, and a verified scene-reference library with a manifest — all indexed, with identity consistent across every sheet, and nothing contradicting the existing personas.

Hard rules

• Do not produce any slideshows; that is a separate downstream task (see the virtual-influencer-slideshows skill).
• Never use stock, AI-generated, editorial, or unverified images in the scene library — only verified-real phone photos.
• Use image generation only for the character's own reference imagery.
• Save every generated image into the character folder immediately after generating it — the generation tool's output directory may be volatile.
• Verify every generated image at full resolution — count two arms, two hands, five fingers per hand, and confirm the signature accessories — and regenerate on any doubt.
• Keep the character's appearance and voice locked and self-consistent across all assets, and clearly differentiated from every existing persona in the project.