Keeping the same character across shots
A character the audience recognizes is built before the first shot is generated.
Five things to do before you generate shots
Start from a reference image
One image that fixes the face, the build and the style.
Make a turnaround
Eight views — front, three-quarter, side and back — so that later shots have something to match.
Decide the outfits
A character who changes clothes in the story needs each outfit designed, not improvised.
Define the expressions
A sheet of expressions you can choose from, shot by shot, instead of describing a face every time.
Give the character a voice
A voice assigned once and used for every line.
Images of the series Heidolon. Generated with draft2cut.
Then, in each shot
Choose which characters appear, in which outfit and with which expression, and which reference images go to the engine. The more the shot is told what to match, the less it invents.