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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — OpenArt, the leading AI creative platform, today announced the launch of Character Builder — the most powerful character creation experience ever built into the platform and a defining moment for what AI-powered creative tools are capable of delivering.
Character Builder gives any creator — AI influencers, filmmakers, brand directors, storytellers, and advertisers — the ability to bring any character they can imagine to life in four guided steps, at a photorealistic quality that used to require an entire professional production pipeline. The result is a character that is precise, consistent across every scene and every platform, and unmistakably theirs.
The Gap Between Imagination and Reality Just Closed
Until today, building a truly photorealistic AI character — one that holds its presence across every post, every scene, every campaign, and every chapter — required resources, pipelines, and iteration cycles that put it out of reach for most creators and brands who needed it most.
Character Builder changes that completely. Four guided steps — Look Vibe, Gender, Ethnicity, and Age — produce a photorealistic result that can be edited, varied, and refined in a full-screen creative workspace until every detail is exactly right. The same quality, every single time.
"The world's most compelling stories start with unforgettable characters," said Coco Mao, CEO of OpenArt. "Character Builder is the tool that finally makes those characters as powerful as the vision behind them — for every influencer building a persona, every filmmaker casting a scene, every brand defining a face, and every storyteller bringing a world to life. We built it at a level where the quality speaks for itself."
What Character Builder Delivers
Character Builder ships with two core experiences designed to serve creators at every level:
The AI Character Builder — a four-step guided creation flow that produces a high-quality, photorealistic character in minutes. Creators select a Look Vibe, Gender, Ethnicity, and Age, and Character Builder renders a result ready to publish, post, or build a career around.
The Character Creation Result Page — a full-screen immersive creative workspace where every generated character can be edited, varied, and refined.
Additional capabilities include Image to Character — allowing creators to upload any reference photo and generate a matched photorealistic character — and a Text to Character flow for advanced users who want full prompt-based control over their creative output.
As of now, OpenArt’s Character Builder only supports building photorealistic human characters. Very soon in the next phase, they will be producing characters across a full range of styles - including Photorealistic, Digital Art, Anime, 3D, Fantasy, RPG, Comic Book, and more.
Built for Every Creator, Every Story
Character Builder is designed for the full breadth of creators who need characters that perform — consistently, precisely, and at a professional level — across every format their work demands.
For AI influencer creators, it delivers a persona that shows up the same way across every post and every platform. For filmmakers and directors, it produces characters that hold their presence across every scene. For brands and advertisers, it builds a face for every campaign that stays recognizable at every touchpoint. For storytellers and worldbuilders, it brings protagonists to life exactly as they exist in the imagination — and keeps them consistent across every chapter of the story.
AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026
Alongside the launch of Character Builder, OpenArt and Fanvue are co-hosting the AI Personality of the Year Awards 2026 — a global competition celebrating the world's most compelling AI influencers and personas, running March 23 through April 19, 2026, with ElevenLabs as a proud sponsor.
The Awards feature five categories and a prize pool of up to $90,000, making it the largest competition of its kind in the AI Influencer/Character space. Character Builder is the tool the world's best AI influencers like Aitana Lopez, Shudu, and Monsters Library are using to build their influencers — and creators around the world can register now here!
Availability
Character Builder is available now on OpenArt here. The feature is accessible to all OpenArt users beginning March 27, 2026.
About OpenArt
OpenArt is the leading AI creative platform, built for creators, brands, filmmakers, and storytellers who demand professional-grade results from their AI-powered creative tools. From image generation to character creation to navigable 3D worlds, OpenArt is where creative vision becomes reality. Learn more here.