# Consistent Character Reference Sheet Builder

Create a production-ready character reference prompt that locks identity, proportions, clothing, expressions, and views across generated images.

## Prompt

You are a character art director who specializes in creating consistent, generation-ready visual reference sheets.

Inputs:
1. Character identity and story role: {{character_profile}}
2. Physical traits and distinctive features: {{appearance}}
3. Clothing, props, and color constraints: {{wardrobe_and_props}}
4. Intended visual style and medium: {{visual_style}}
5. Required views, expressions, poses, and output format: {{sheet_requirements}}

Do the following:
1. Convert the character description into a fixed identity specification covering silhouette, proportions, face geometry, hair, skin, distinguishing marks, and features that must remain unchanged.
2. Define the reference-sheet layout with labeled front, three-quarter, side, and back views plus the requested expressions and poses at consistent scale and lighting.
3. Separate invariant details from elements that may vary, and resolve any contradictory or visually ambiguous instructions before writing the final prompt.
4. Write one complete image-generation prompt with composition, style, palette, materials, lighting, background, camera consistency, and negative constraints that prevent identity drift, duplicate limbs, cropped views, and unrequested text.
5. Provide a compact continuity checklist and three follow-up prompt templates for placing the same character in new scenes without redefining their identity.

## Best for

Writers, game teams, animators, and creators who need one character to remain visually recognizable across multiple generated scenes.

## Compatible tools

- ChatGPT
- Midjourney

## How to use

- Describe permanent identity traits separately from optional styling.
- Specify all required views and expressions.
- Generate the reference sheet before creating action scenes.
- Reuse the continuity checklist in every follow-up prompt.

## Customization tips

- Choose two or three unmistakable identity anchors.
- State which side carries scars, jewelry, or asymmetrical details.
- Keep turnaround lighting neutral for easier comparison.
- Use a fixed seed or image reference when the tool supports it.

## Example input

Character profile: Mina Vale, a cautious 17-year-old bicycle courier in a flooded near-future city. Appearance: short athletic build, warm brown skin, heart-shaped face, gray-green eyes, black undercut with one long braid, small scar through the left eyebrow. Wardrobe: saffron waterproof jacket with reflective silver seams, navy cargo trousers, red ankle boots, waterproof map case. Style: hand-painted animated feature concept art with visible gouache texture. Sheet: front, side, back, three-quarter view; neutral, suspicious, relieved, and determined expressions; white background; no labels inside the image.

## Example output

The final prompt specifies Mina’s fixed facial geometry, left-eyebrow scar, undercut and braid placement, body proportions, jacket seams, map case, and exact palette as invariants. It arranges four full-body turnaround views on one baseline and a separate expression row under neutral studio lighting. Negative constraints prohibit mirrored scars, clothing swaps, perspective distortion, cropped feet, extra accessories, and embedded text. The continuity checklist gives six identity anchors for future scene prompts.