I tried Sora’s Character Cameos and now my dog thinks she’s a movie star (www.techradar.com)

OpenAI has expanded Sora’s Cameo tool into “Character Cameos,” letting users turn pets, toys, and everyday objects into reusable, animated characters for AI-generated videos. Creating a Character Cameo requires only a few seconds of well-lit footage with a clean background; Sora auto-generates a name, tag and personality “capsule” you can edit, then lets you reference that character in video prompts. In tests, the tool handled costume changes, stage direction and fanciful settings (an Antarctic dance number, a cosmic superhero dog) with entertaining results, and typical processing runs on the order of minutes. Technically this democratizes synthetic character creation and reuse—useful for indie creators and AI filmmakers—but output quality is uneven and prompt engineering remains crucial. Sora 2 often struggles with scene realism, physical interactions (e.g., magical liquid), and maintaining faithful object appearance; toys sometimes became unsettling, and a dog DJ turned into a child in one render. Content-safety rules also block copyrighted or realistic human likenesses, sometimes overzealously. The feature’s long-term value lies in reusable character assets and shareability, but creators should expect iteration, promptspecific detail, and policy limits before treating Sora as a reliable source of “movie-star” characters.