Make Your AI Story Characters Look the Same Every Time

Are you creating a story with AI or making a series of images and struggling to keep the characters looking consistent? It can be frustrating when your main character changes their hair or outfit in every scene. This post shows you how to solve that problem using special AI tools designed for character consistency.

You can design a character, teach the AI to remember them, and then generate many images or scenes where the character always looks the same. By the end, you will understand how to use these tools to create a full project with consistent characters, whether it's short story scenes or a series of social media posts.

Keeping characters consistent not only makes your final product look better but can also save you a lot of time in editing and regeneration. Imagine automating parts of this process? Tools like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT can streamline some of these tasks by helping manage your Midjourney prompts and images more effectively.

Why Character Consistency Matters

Consistency is key for any visual project. Think about a movie or a comic book. The main characters look the same in every panel or shot (unless there's a story reason for them to change). This helps the audience connect with the characters and follow the plot easily. Random changes are distracting and make your project look unprofessional.

For stories, characters need to be recognizable across different actions and backgrounds. For social media, like an Instagram feed, having a consistent character look creates a strong brand identity and makes your content look polished and put together. This is especially useful for creating a series of posts featuring the same person or avatar.

Teaching AI to Remember Your Character

Special AI features, like a "Consistent Character" tool, let you train the AI. First, you need good images of your character. A "Character Sheet" tool is helpful here. It creates different views of your character, like front, back, and side views. These different angles are important for the AI to learn the character's full look.

Creating Initial Character Images

• Pick a visual style for your character (realistic, anime, cartoon, etc.).

• Write a detailed description of your character. Include age, hair, clothing, and face details.

• Use a prompt generator (sometimes available via community resources like Discord servers) to help create prompts that generate multiple angles or poses.

• Generate a few sets of images and choose the ones that best show your character from different viewpoints.

Training Your Character Model

Once you have the images showing different angles, you use the "Consistent Character" training feature. Some tools offer a manual method and an auto method.

• Manual: Place your selected images on a canvas. Crop each image carefully to focus on the character, leaving a little space around them. Download the cropped images.

• Auto: Some tools can automatically process the images you select, splitting them into different views for training without manual cropping steps. This is faster.

• Upload the cropped or auto-processed images into the character training section.

• Give your character a name and start the training. This process takes some time as the AI learns the character's features.

After training, your character is ready to be used consistently in new images.

Using Your Consistent Character in Scenes

Now for the fun part: creating new scenes with your trained character. Most tools integrating this feature make it simple.

• Select the trained character from your list.

• Describe the new scene or action you want the character to be doing. Focus on the action and environment. You don't need to describe the character's look again.

• Add a background description at the end of your prompt. This helps keep the scene environment consistent across multiple images.

• Generate the image. The AI should place your trained character into the new setting doing the action you described, while maintaining their consistent look.

You can repeat this process for every scene in your story or every post in your social media series.

Putting Multiple Consistent Characters in One Scene

What if your story needs two or more trained characters in the same image? Tools often have an "Insert Character" feature for this.

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This method requires careful selection but allows you to build scenes with multiple characters who maintain their unique, trained appearance across all images.

Creating Consistent Social Media Content

The same steps work great for creating a series of social media posts featuring the same person or character. If you want to create realistic-looking posts, choose a realistic style when generating your initial training images.

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[LI]Generate the image for each post.[/LI]

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Your character will appear in different settings and poses, but their physical look will stay the same. You can even update clothing details in the prompt for outfits to change while the person remains consistent.

Managing prompts for entire series of images and ensuring consistency can be complex. Tools like the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT are built to help you organize, manage, and automate your AI image generation workflow, which can complement using consistent character features in other tools.

Getting Started and Next Steps

Using AI tools with consistent character features makes creating visual stories and themed image series much easier. Training your own character model is the most reliable way to ensure they look the same in every picture.

Try out these features in an AI image generation tool that offers them. Experiment with different styles and prompts. See what stories you can bring to life or what kind of consistent content you can create for social media.

For those looking to automate and enhance their AI image creation process, especially with tools like Midjourney, explore the capabilities of the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It can help manage your prompts and images, making your projects more organized and efficient.