Build your first consistent character

Two to ten images. The studio uses these to lock identity across every later render, so they need to look like the same person. Mix one front-facing portrait, one three-quarter, one full-body if you can get it. Different lighting is fine and helps. Different hairstyles or wildly different ages will confuse the router; keep the look consistent.

Photorealistic references render photorealistic outputs. Stylized references (illustration, anime, painterly) render stylized outputs. Pick the look you want now; the studio will preserve it later.

In the dashboard sidebar, head to Characters and click New character. You’ll get a form that asks for a name, a short bio (we call it “lore”), an optional default voice preset, and a place to drop your reference images.

Names are display-only. Slugs are auto-generated from the name and stay unique inside your org.

The bio runs through the studio every time the model needs to imagine your character in a new scene. The shorter and more specific it is, the better the renders.

Mia’s bio: “Korean American makeup artist in her mid 20s. Editorial-first beauty content. Glass skin, dewy makeup, restrained gold jewelry. Soft glam, never loud.”

Notice what’s in there: niche, age band, look, palette, tone. Notice what’s not: full life history, relationship status, list of hobbies. Bios are anchors, not biographies.

Tags are optional but they help the studio reach for the right defaults later. A character tagged fitness gets gym-friendly composition cues; one tagged editorial gets cleaner light and tighter framing.

Three to five tags is plenty. Don’t list a thesaurus.

Every character has to be age-attested before it can generate. You confirm the depicted person is 18+; the system records the attestation and refuses to render if you skip this. The check runs once per character, not per generation, so it doesn’t get in your way.

After save, the character lands on /characters and immediately becomes available in every generate flow. Reference images run a moderation pass in the background; clean refs are usable within a minute.