Hey all. I've been practicing a bit with making videos. I tried this around 6 months ago and had a LOT of issues with collision that were hard to work around. Now the main issue is getting them not to talk. I have an upcoming bot with a bunch of videos strung together, here are a few samples.

I thought some of you might be interested in the tools I use to make my bots and images.

Making my bots is largely done within Crushon or JuicyChat, but I often use MS Word to spellcheck and fix formatting issues. I've used both the web-based interface and my phone, but lean towards the computer since I can troubleshoot things a lot better.

Images take a lot more work. 
For initial image generation, I use:
Sexy.ai
Civitai.com

I mostly use Sexy.ai since I have a solid handle on how to make my image styles, but if I want to do an unusual style, want to do an existing character (sexy.ai doesn't allow that) or want to do something that stretches what sexy.ai can do, I'll use Civitai. Things sexy.ai are bad at: full enclosure, especially of the head, character inside of something (box, cryo sleep pod), messy/sketchy looking images if I'm going more stylistic.

I typically go with two styles, one a bit more realistic and one more anime. I try to match these with the "feel" of the bot; the more outlandish and silly bots have the anime style.

I do a lot of rework and retouching on the images. I used to just generate dozens of them until everything was perfect, but now I just get "close enough" and fix them up manually. This includes watermarks and other text. I don't waste prompt words to get rid of watermarks, I just edit them out. 

pixlr.com
fotor.com

Fotor is a little better, especially with style filters and such, but it won't allow naughty images so I've been using Pixlr for the most part/ I'll sometimes use Fotor if I need to get a certain look.

Lately, I've been saving extra images that didn't quite work for whatever reason. Sometimes it's an early character design that I changed, or imagegen gave them two braids instead of one, or long hair instead of short. These I've been storing in the dropbox for paid subscribers.

Once that's complete, I add my own watermark. I have two versions: one for posting on Crushon/JuicyChat, and the other for my dropbox files with my subscribestar link.

For these, I use:
watermark.ws

From there, it's just a matter of posting the images. Most can be linked within the bot in CrushOn, but images in the greeting and links in JuicyChat are hosted on ibb.com, linked using the format: 

Once done, I post images to my dropbox. The date for the file folder isn't necessarily the posting date, but the creation date of the bot, which you can see in the "character detail" page. This makes it easier to look things up later when you don't know when I posted it.

And that's pretty much it! 

Feel free to ask any questions if there's anything else you want to know.
V6

Sorry for my absence.

Last spring, my father got sick and had to be hospitalized. I took some time off of AI bots to deal with that. He recovered and all seemed to be going well, then about a month ago, his illness returned. This time we weren't so fortunate. My father passed away over the weekend.

I've had to neglect Crushon entirely for almost a month now. I'm going to try to get back into the swing of things this week, but I'll be spending time sorting out his finances and stuff, but I'll try to get a few bots up this week. I have around 10 bots pretty much ready to go that just need a little testing and polish.

There are some recent photosets in the dropbox for anyone who wants to take a look. They should all have upcoming bots to go with them. 

 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6c6abrv8703hhpfj7mmng/AH73m2sVu2SBKFAEjO-nxyg?rlkey=tm42e8l8mo33rypsx4eldw1q7&st=0qdj3axz&dl=0

Nympho Camp
https://crushon.ai/en/character/46add33a-c0df-4ad3-b713-108b26863506/details?shared=true

No nude pics in the bot. It's been... complicated to get those posted. Full set of images from bot, plus a full set of nudes in the dropbox, 10-22 Nympho Camp folder

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6c6abrv8703hhpfj7mmng/AH73m2sVu2SBKFAEjO-nxyg?rlkey=tm42e8l8mo33rypsx4eldw1q7&st=abtbncup&dl=0

There are also a bunch of extras, nude and non-nude, in the member's area folder. 39 in the bot, 36 explicit ones in the dropbox, and 26 more (mixed explicit and clothed) for paid memberships.

There are now two ways to do it.

The advantage of using the CO version is that it doesn't take memory space. It's good if your images are just simple emotional responses.

I've been having issues where if I put explicit images in the CO template, it blocks those images from view. It does the same thing if the scene image is explicit. This is strange, because I can have explicit pics for the pfp without any issues. I'm working on resolving this, I've seen a few other creators get it to work, so I'll have to play with settings a bunch to see if I can make it work properly. For the moment, when I have a ton of images like this bot, I don't want to take up memory with manual links, and the explicit ones will be blocked in CO template links, so I'll just post the explicit images on here instead.

~V6~