How to build an AI waifu on OurDream: six screens, every option explained

The first screen reads Create your dream AI girl. At the top you choose Female, Male or Trans; below, two large cards show the two styles, Realistic and Anime. Click Anime. That single click is the most important one in the whole builder, because every preview, every portrait and every generated scene after it will be drawn in anime style. Below the cards, Begin starts the step by step builder and Design with AI lets you describe her in a sentence instead. We recommend Begin: the step by step route shows you every option, and you can still type a description later in the Details screen. If you change your mind about the style later, come back to this screen; the following steps keep their choices where they can, but the previews will redraw.

General shows ten ethnicity cards: Asian, Black, White, Latina, Arab, Indian, then Elf, Alien and Demon, and Custom. The last three are why OurDream is our favourite builder for fantasy waifus. Elf adds pointed ears and a lighter, finer face; Demon adds horns and a darker, sharper look; Alien goes further with unusual skin and eyes. Under the cards, six skin tones work with every choice, so a dark skinned elf or a pale demon is one click away. Pick one card and one tone, then Next. For our mage we chose Elf with the second lightest tone; for the demon version, Demon with a warm mid tone. If none of the presets fits, Custom lets you describe the ethnicity yourself, which is useful for mixed or very specific looks.

The Face screen has three rows. Hair style offers ten choices: Braided, Long, Bangs, Ponytail, Short, Bun, Buns, Wavy, Pixie and Custom. Eye color and hair color each offer ten swatches. The previews are drawn in the style you picked, so you see the actual result rather than a generic icon. This is where an archetype starts to show. Dark hair with red or violet eyes reads as goth or yandere at a glance; a short cut with warm brown eyes reads as a friendly tomboy; long silver hair with pale blue eyes reads as a cool mage or a kuudere. Take a second to imagine her in the setting you picked. A knight with an elaborate double bun can work, but a braid is more believable under a helmet.

Body offers five types, Slim, Athletic, Voluptuous, Curvy and Muscular, followed by rows for proportions. Like the other screens, every option has an anime preview. Choose what fits the character rather than the most extreme option: an athletic build for a fighter or a knight, slim for a bookish dandere, curvy or voluptuous for a confident bartender. Proportions show up in every later picture, so a moderate choice ages better over weeks of chatting than an exaggerated one. Our mage got Slim with middle values; the demon version got Athletic. If you are unsure, pick the middle option on each row and adjust later by building a second version of her; the comparison will tell you quickly which one feels right.

This is the screen that turns a portrait into a waifu. Enter her name and pick an age, starting at 21. Then choose a voice, with a play button to hear it, a personality, an occupation, a relationship to you, a hobby and an orientation. At the bottom, Advanced details opens a free text box: write two or three sentences about where you met, what she wants and one habit she has. For our mage we wrote that she catalogs forbidden books in a tower library, distrusts loud people, and secretly enjoys being interrupted by you. The chat used every word of it in its first reply. The Next button shows the cost of the portrait before you click, 5 coins on our Premium account, so you are never surprised by the coin counter.

The last screen draws her portrait and shows two tabs, Appearance and Personality, that summarize everything you chose. An anime style setting lets you adjust the drawing, and Regenerate draws a new portrait with the same choices. Regenerate once or twice if the pose or the outfit is not what you pictured; it is the cheapest moment to fix it, because this portrait becomes the face of every later image. When you like her, click Bring Your AI To Life. She is saved to your characters and her chat opens. Our elf came out right on the first draw, with the ears and the long silver hair we picked. The demon version needed one regeneration to get a calmer expression that matched the personality we had written.