@Background Pony #5DA8
That would depend entirely on the motor. Internal combustion engines would not exist in the specific alternate universe that she inhabits, but steam powered engines are involved in some of her designs

@Scarlet Ribbon
does she like motored vehicles?

@Background Pony #5DA8
Nope. I don’t generally in my headcanon

@Scarlet Ribbon
does she build robots?

@Background Pony #5DA8
Yes. She’s independently wealthy, attractive, and single, so she tends to end up getting a lot of attention for any number of reasons.

@Scarlet Ribbon
does scarlet like the attention she gets from stallions? what kind of attention is it?

@Background Pony #5DA8
Absolutely everything would fall apart. Scarlet would not be able to handle lacking access to her magic–she’s basically built her entire life around arcane machinery. Jupiter would hate the attention that her mother gets, because the only attention she wants is the attention she goes out of her way to get (read: causing trouble), and generally hates the kind of attention that her mother gets from stallions.

@Scarlet Ribbon
how would she and her daughter act in a freaky friday situation?

@Background Pony #5DA8
Not particularly; what stresses her out is her home life and dealing with her teenage daughter who doesn’t respect her (not that she’s honestly done anything to earn respect)

@Scarlet Ribbon
is that a stressful job for her?

@Background Pony #268E
Arcane Engineering, specifically. Specializing in the intersection of magic and technology. Occupationally, she’s the Chief Royal Engineer of Canterlot, and is basically responsible for maintaining the persistent spellwork that keeps Canterlot from just crashing down the side of the mountain.

@DaisyAzuras
I’m paying $20/mo, IIRC. If you have 24 GB of VRAM, I strongly recommend getting into local gen for ponies, though.

@Scarlet Ribbon
I use gemini and meta.ai to edit my hand drawn art but both refuse to generate anything that looks like actual ponies and neither seem to allow video generation. at least not in their free modes. how much does it cost to get gemini to make video?

@Scarlet Ribbon
what kind of engineering does she do?

@Background Pony #268E
Generally good-hearted, but too prone to being self-absorbed in her engineering work, which causes a rift in her relationship with her daughter. She’s also a single mother and is generally constantly trying to find the next good stallion to try and patch the big relationship hole in her heart… Which mostly means she is prone to unhealthy attachments far too quickly.

I have… A lot… Of notes about her and her daughter.

@DaisyAzuras
This specific one was generated by a paid model (Google Gemini), but I think the latest minimax release could do this on a local setup if you have enough vram. I have another video of Scarlet walking down a bridge that was done with minimax if you want comparison.

@Scarlet Ribbon
what is her personality like?

how do yo get results like this? is this generated locally or on a server?

@Bad Dragon
TBH, given her personality… I can’t elaborate on that because of the rating of this image.

That’s quite a phallic-shaped object she’s engineering there. Is she sure this would be safe to use?

@Scarlet Ribbon
I really want something better than Voicemod that doesn’t sound glitchy and autotuned. Gemini tells me that Elevenlab’s voice creator is the best option for that (though it is subscription based). Maybe another time I’ll get around to researching it.

Basic goal: Find a way to generate some clean audio clips of a voice that doesn’t exist, make 15 minutes of lines from it, and then train on RVC.

@Meta_Void
I have actually had these same thoughts. I have an idea of what Scarlet SHOULD sound like in my head, but I’ve never been able to ‘hear’ her, if that makes any sense. I’d love to get that sorted out, cuz I have around two dozen heavily developed OCs I’d love to bring entirely to life.

@Scarlet Ribbon
This just reminded me of one of the biggest hurdles I have faced which is: How do you give an OC a custom voice? And at this point, how do you make a custom voice work with a model like this? Perhaps if you made a custom AI voice with something like voicemod, and then recorded a bunch of lines with it, maybe you could train that data on something like RVC in order to use it forever?

@Scarlet Ribbon
Aha. Well I really like the OC, and the drip.

@Meta_Void
The prompt didn’t include any dialogue and it generated with nothing but soft music, so I stripped the audio for filesize reasons. Actually, I didn’t even prompt the blueprint: I was doing design discussion with Gemini and it remembered that she’s an engineer.