A character sheet before the first video credit
Lock face, wardrobe, palette in stills. Video credits are the expensive way to discover the character drifted.
6 min read
Icon sets: Recraft reference_images across a batch
Not a brand kit. A stack.
4 min read
Pinterest search returns image URLs, not a board
search_pinterest is a lookup that returns reference URLs. Generating the board from adjectives is a different job, and it wastes credits.
4 min read
Wan 2.7 Pro Edit: change one locked still (8cr)
Wan 2.7 Pro Edit is an edit. Point at the object. A new text-to-image throws away the still you approved.
4 min read
How many reference slots your shot actually needs
Single-image, three-slot and nine-slot reference models compared: which shots improve past three references, which just get slower, and a shot-type table.
9 min read
Identity blending: a face that isn't anyone
Weighted mixes of faces a model already knows produce a novel character that reproduces. The syntax, the ratios that stay stable, and how to lock the result.
9 min read
The face changes when the character turns
A single front-facing still cannot constrain a profile, so identity collapses on the turn. Build a multi-angle sheet, and keep the turn as a cut.
9 min read
Image-to-3D vs traditional asset pipelines
Generating a mesh from one image covers props well, hero objects partly and characters not at all. Topology, textures, rigging and the cleanup nobody budgets.
9 min read
Pinterest reference search inside the agent
Describing a look in words is lossy. How to pull real reference images into the agent conversation and brief a generation from a picture instead of a paragraph.
8 min read
Your reference stops working by shot four
Chaining each clip to the last output compounds identity error. Re-anchor every new shot to the master reference, not to shot three's last frame.
9 min read
Reference hygiene: why your refs fight each other
Mixed lighting, crops and resolutions make a model average two looks into a third person. The hard spec for a reference set that holds one identity.
9 min read
The outfit changes between shot 2 and shot 3
Costume drift is identity drift you only catch at assembly. Reuse one wardrobe block verbatim, and know which garment details need a still instead of text.
9 min read
Your reference image got cropped on upload
Some pipelines hard-crop uploaded references to the target ratio without warning. Pre-pad to that ratio yourself so the crop has nothing to take.
9 min read
Garbage Reference In: Input Rules for Image-to-Video
Why image-to-video generations fail before the prompt even runs: reference resolution floors, framing, motion blur, and the clean-cutout trap explained.
8 min read
Mascot Sheets: Turnarounds, Expressions, and Pose Libraries
Produce the reference sheet as its own deliverable first, then feed it into every downstream generation — the model-sheet habit animation never dropped.
8 min read
Multi-Reference Editing: Lock Product, Face, and Set at Once
Reference count is a hard spec, not a vibe — what Kling Image O1's 10 slots and FLUX.2's 10 images buy you, and how to split them across product, face and set.
8 min read
Reference Boards: Composition Study Without Copying
Moodboarding didn't disappear when generation got fast — it got more important. How to gather references, study them, and never copy one directly.
7 min read
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