Characters

How the Characters section works#

1. Left — the project menu. “Characters” is the first item in the “Assets” group.
2. Top — the project’s characters. A strip: Rover 1987, Yo Gun, the hedgehogs (crowd), Ulyana; the top bar has Add character and Scale.
3. Center — the character card. References, portrait, layout, emotion sheet and character sheet; below them, video demos, outfits and voices.
4. Right — the agent and the profile. The Characters assistant chat and the character profile, with the Prompt / Assistant switch between them.

01Create a character with the agent#

The section’s agent is the Characters assistant: it reads the project script and fills in the character profile itself.

Ask the assistant#

Write who to create, or click the Create a character suggestion above the field. If the characters are already in the script, one sentence is enough:

The agent creates the character and the profile but does not generate images. You start those yourself — with the buttons on the card or by asking in the chat. How we created the characters of «Роверы и ёжики» with height and appearance in a single task — see the “From fairy tale to film” guide.

Or create one manually#

Add character on the top bar opens the “New character” window — it has only a name. Fill in the profile yourself later or ask the agent.

Check the profile#

Open the profile with the Prompt / Assistant switch below the chat. It is the text foundation of every generation of the character: each trait has a colored label.

02Generate the portrait#

In the Portrait block, click Generate portrait. The front view is the base image: the other views, the layout and the emotion sheet are built from it.

Below the portrait is a strip of six views: Front, 3/4 left, 3/4 right, Left profile, Right profile, Back. Open an empty view and click the button with its name, for example Generate 3/4 left. You can start all of them at once — generations run in parallel.

Above the portrait are action icons: Versions, Upload file, Pick from library, Delete. On the right — Correct and Regenerate this view.

03Generate the layout#

The Layout block has two thumbnails at the bottom: “Full body” and “Headless”. Select “Full body” and click Generate — or Regenerate if there is already a layout. You get a sheet with the character from every side: from it the model understands the figure, costume and shoes.

“Headless” is built from the full-body layout: the same body and costume, but without the head.

04Generate the emotion sheet#

In the Emotion sheet block, click Generate. The platform takes the portrait and draws six states: NEUTRAL, JOY, ANGER, SADNESS, SURPRISE, FEAR.

Fix a cell with an outline#

A bad detail is easier to fix than to regenerate the whole sheet. Yo Gun’s sixth cell came out with fear, but in the story he falls asleep at the end.

1. Click Correct above the sheet — the editor opens.
2. Outline the cell with the brush.
3. Describe the fix and click Correct to the right of the field.

BeforeAfter

The corrected sheet is saved as a new version — the Versions counter above the sheet now shows “2”, and the previous version is kept. Besides the brush, the editor has an oval, arrows and text.

05Assemble the character sheet#

Click Create character sheet. This is not a generation: in seconds the platform puts the finished images on one sheet.

• on the left, the six portrait views;
• top right, the layout (headless, if there is one);
• bottom right, the emotion sheet.

If you change the portrait, layout or emotions after assembly, a appears by the heading with the hint “References changed — recreate the character sheet”. Click Recreate in the corner of the sheet.

06Set the scale#

The height from the profile sets the character’s size relative to the others. In «Роверы и ёжики» this is the key point: 20-centimeter hedgehogs, a 70-centimeter rover and 110-centimeter Ulyana.

Scale sheet#

Click Scale on the top bar. In the “Character scale sheet” window all the project’s characters stand on one line, each with a name and height below.

1. If a character is a gray silhouette, click Regenerate A-pose by its figure. The A-pose needs a character sheet or a layout.
2. To change the height, hover over the character and drag a corner of the frame — or type a number in the field that appears next to it.

Scale in video generation#

In a shot with two or more characters, open the Video tab and turn on Consider character scale in the settings. A scale sheet with this shot’s characters is attached to the generation, and the height difference holds in the frame.

The “character scale sheet” link in the hint shows what goes into the generation. The warning below means one of the shot’s characters has no A-pose yet and will not be on the sheet.

07Add an outfit#

An outfit is the same character in different clothes: for a beach scene, a holiday or the weather. Outfits are at the bottom of the character card.

Ask the characters assistant — for example, “create a summer outfit for Ulyana: a bucket hat and a sundress” — or click Add outfit. The “New outfit” window has two fields: the name and a description of clothes, shoes and accessories — the description goes into the prompt. The Generate button creates the outfit and starts the generation right away.

The platform takes the character’s base layout and changes only the clothes, shoes and accessories from the description — the face, figure and height stay the same.

In a shot, pick the outfit in the Characters panel: a picker appears under the character — “Default outfit” or the one you created. If you delete an outfit, shots that use it go back to the default one.

What’s next#

Run the emotion, gait and action video demos — these blocks are on the character card above the outfits. Locations and props are created the same way — see the “Locations” and “Props” guides.