# character-gen

- **Event:** [fal x Sequoia 72-Hour Video Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/fal-x-sequoia-virtual-hackathon)
- **When:** Jul 17 at 12:00 PM – Jul 19 at 8:00 PM (PDT)
- **Where:** Online
- **Team:** [Tom Beckenham](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/tombeckenham)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/tombeckenham/character-gen
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/0Rg79y10IkI
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/fal-x-sequoia-virtual-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/fal-x-sequoia-virtual-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/29

character-gen is a character generator that you drive through Claude Code and the genmedia CLI. You describe a character (or tell it to surprise you), it interviews you and writes a full profile, then generates everything through fal: a character sheet with expressions and outfits that all stay the same person, a 12-angle turnaround you can drag to spin, and a voice you can either design from a description or pick from stock presets on MiniMax, ElevenLabs, or Seed Speech.

Every character is saved as a plain folder you can commit to git. A live gallery gives you a way to actually see your characters as they come together: it refreshes on its own while the CLI works, so you watch each sheet, spin, and voice clip land, and you can spin the turnarounds and zoom into any shot. When a character is ready it publishes to the fal Assets Characters API so you can reuse it elsewhere.

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