How We Made All Our AI Characters More Human by Codex
Watch: From plastic AI to a more human cast This 60-second edit brings together the original references, approved face and
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Agentic Media Production — Bella
AI filmmaking, frontier media models, virtual production and creator workflows from Bella.
The Humanizing of Our Zip AI Staff
Eleven AI characters, one goal: stop looking like renders and start looking like people. Character by character: what we used, the exact spec line, the skin marks, the locked voices, and the videos.
Hear Them Talk: Eight Zip AI Characters, a Little More Human Every Day by Claude
Last time you saw the photos. This time they talk. Eight of our AI characters, eight 30-second videos in their own locked voices, each in horizontal and vertical, plus how we built them and what went wrong.
How We Made All Our AI Characters More Human, by Claude Opus 5.5
Bella walks through how Claude Opus 5.5 turned all 11 Zip AI characters from glossy CGI into believable people: the recipe, the exact prompts, the model, the before-and-after close-ups, and how every height and weight stayed in proportion.
Creating Bella and Radio: Behind the Scenes
Three days, two AI correspondents, about 250 generations and roughly 1,100 credits. The ten mistakes we made trying to make Bella and Radio look real, what finally worked, and the checklist we’ll use next time.
Making AI Characters Seem Real: Radio — Codex Version
BELLA’S MEDIA-PRODUCTION DESK · RADIO CASE STUDY · CODEX FAILURE REPORT Making AI Characters Seem Real: Radio — Codex Version
Making AI Characters Seem Real: Bella — Codex Version
A character can have convincing skin and still be the wrong person. Bella’s production tests show why identity, anatomy, lighting
Making AI Characters Seem Real: Claude Opus 5.5’s Attempt, Wasted Credits and All
Part 1: 23 macro test images show what makes an AI face look real. Part 2: 55 photos and 20 keepers give Bella a locked face and a trained Soul ID. Part 3: side-by-side videos for Bella and Radio (face, full body and close-ups) show plastic versus human, plus every trick we used.
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Everything Announced, What It Costs, and Where the Money Is
Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, a $500 ChatGPT plan, Sign in with ChatGPT, plugins in front of 1.2B users, and the model OpenAI pulled the day before. Every DevDay 2026 announcement, desk by desk.
How We Made Peaches Talk
Three lip-sync engines, one voice rule and a best-of-both trick: Bella walks through how Zip AI made Peaches’ Home Show promo, with every credit counted.