Characters & Scenes
Pick who lives here, decide where the story happens: characters who keep their face, clothes and manner in every place, and places that stay themselves in every shot.
A character is a sheet, not a prompt
Name, age, face, hair, build, the outfit and its palette, the marks that never change and what must stay out of the frame. The sheet writes its own canon — the words every run carries — so Odile, 74, in the red balloon-sleeve coat is the same Odile in a laundromat at 3 a.m. and in a desert with a pool in it.
From the sheet: a portrait, and five generation sheets — Face, Full body, Turnaround, Expressions, Poses. Give her a voice from the speech models, then talk to her: the chat answers in character.
A place is a sheet too
Interior or exterior; its space, what is in it, what is happening there now, its light, weather, colours and mood. The Locations tool draws the plate from it — every world on the stage above is one — and hands it on to the 3D generator or the canvas.
Both in one run
Arm a character and a place in the generator and type one line. The prompt goes out with both canons, and the references go with it — the character’s first, then the place’s.
Full-length cinematic shot of the character standing in this place, looking into the camera, lit by the light of the place, natural shadows and reflections
That line, typed once and never changed: forty-two shots, six people in seven places — the prints you open on the stage.