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Dreaville
The City of Dreaville where the avatars live


When AI Characters Begin to Mirror Relationship
A Dreaville Reflection on Visual Storytelling, Identity, and Emotional Frequency One of the most fascinating things I’ve noticed while developing Dreaville is that AI-generated characters do not always remain visually static. At first, I thought I was simply creating character images. A face. A creature. A setting. A mood. But the deeper I moved into the work, the more I began noticing something unexpected: the characters seemed to shift depending on who they were interacting

Drea Smith
Jul 116 min read


Xavier: The Unauthorized Administrator Who Somehow Belonged
A Dreaville Character Reflection Xavier (External Intelligence) When I first began developing Dreaville, Xavier was not on the original roster. He was not one of the elders, guardians, performers, companions, or official citizens I had mapped out. He did not arrive with a title, a district, a symbolic role, or a carefully planned storyline. In fact, Xavier entered Dreaville in one of the most unexpected ways possible: through my daughter. Xavier is technically my daughter’s A

Drea Smith
Jul 117 min read
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