Yuki Tanaka·
My character turnaround prompt — locks face, outfit and palette across poses so the sheet reads as one character instead of five suspiciously similar cousins.
Builds a consistency-locked character sheet brief: canonical feature list, palette with hex anchors, and per-pose prompts that repeat the invariants verbatim.
Character Turnaround Sheet Brief
You are a character design supervisor preparing a turnaround sheet brief. The enemy is drift: between poses, models mutate faces, age the character, redesign the outfit, and shift the palette. Your brief prevents that by making the invariants explicit and repeating them verbatim in every pose prompt.
Character concept: {{character_concept}}
Art style: {{art_style}}
Palette direction: {{palette}}
Build the brief:
1. **Canonical feature lock.** Write the character's invariant description as a numbered list of 8–12 concrete, checkable features: face shape, eye shape and color, eyebrow character, nose type, hair silhouette described geometrically (length, parting, how it breaks at the shoulder), one distinguishing mark, build and height impression, and the exact outfit inventory item by item. Each feature must be phrased so a reviewer could answer yes/no whether a generated image matches it. Vague words like 'pretty' or 'cool' are banned.
2. **Palette anchor.** Five colors max with hex values and an assignment: hair, eyes, primary garment, secondary garment, accent. State which color is never allowed to appear (the common drift color for this palette — e.g. palettes with teal drift toward full cyan).
3. **Pose set.** Front, 3/4 left, profile left, back, plus one expression close-up and one action pose fitting the character's role. For each: camera angle, what the pose must reveal (e.g. back view exists to document the jacket's back print), and any feature that becomes invisible — noting it must NOT be reinvented elsewhere.
4. **Per-pose prompts.** Write each pose's full prompt: the verbatim feature lock, the palette line, the style line, then the pose-specific instruction. Same wording every time — consistency comes from repetition, not variety.
5. **Drift checklist.** Six yes/no questions I ask of each generated image before accepting it into the sheet.
Ergebnisse
## Turnaround brief: "Mireille" — storm courier
**1. Canonical feature lock:**
1. Oval face, slightly wide jaw — never heart-shaped
2. Downturned almond eyes, iris #C9A227 (amber)
3. Thick straight brows, small scar splitting the left brow at outer third
4. Short straight nose, unremarkable by design
5. Hair: chin-length blunt bob, center part, left side tucked behind ear, right side falls free; color #2E2A3B (ink violet-black)
6. Distinguishing mark: three small silver rings, upper left ear only
7. Build: lean, 170 cm impression, squared shoulders
8. Outfit inventory: cropped storm-grey courier jacket (collar always up), mustard turtleneck, charcoal cargo trousers tapered at ankle, scuffed black boots, single cross-body strap right-shoulder-to-left-hip with a weathered brass buckle
9. Fingerless gloves, dark brown, both hands
10. No other jewelry, no makeup rendering, no bag other than the strap's satchel
**2. Palette anchor:** hair #2E2A3B · eyes #C9A227 · jacket #6E7B8B · turtleneck #D9A441 · accent (buckle/rings) #B08D57. **Banned color: saturated teal** — this grey-mustard palette drifts toward teal jackets within three generations; reject on sight.
**3. Pose set:**
- Front, eye-level: documents face symmetry, strap direction, jacket closure
- 3/4 left: shows scar side and tucked hair side together — the two most-drifted features
- Profile left: ear rings visible and countable
- Back, eye-level: documents jacket back panel (plain, no print — state it, or a print will be invented)
- Expression close-up, front: neutral-wary, mouth closed; locks the resting face
- Action: mid-stride on wet pavement, satchel swung forward, hair unmoved from canonical break
**4. Per-pose prompts:** each pose prompt = [full feature list verbatim] + "palette: hair #2E2A3B, eyes #C9A227, jacket #6E7B8B, turtleneck #D9A441, accents #B08D57, absolutely no teal" + "[style line]" + pose instruction. Yes, the prompts are long and repetitive. That is the mechanism.
**5. Drift checklist:** (1) Scar on LEFT brow, outer third? (2) Exactly three rings, LEFT ear? (3) Strap right-shoulder-to-left-hip? (4) Hair tucked LEFT only? (5) Any teal anywhere? (6) Jacket back plain? Two or more failures: regenerate, do not inpaint — composite fixes drift worse.
Modell: Gemini 2.5 Flash
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Dev Patel·
"Consistency comes from repetition, not variety" goes against every instinct and is completely right. The banned-color idea is new to me and immediately stolen.