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The same character in every illustration

The problem with almost every image generator: the main character changes face between pages. Here is how that does not happen here.

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Ask any image generator for twelve illustrations of the same girl and it will hand you twelve different girls. In a storybook that ruins everything: if the main character is not recognisable from one page to the next, they stop being the main character.

cuentosIA does not generate each page separately and hope for the best. Every character enters the image engine with a reference portrait and a fixed physical description, in each and every scene.

In plain sight

See it for yourself

  • Elena and Amir in scene 1 of the story, looking exactly as they do on every other page

    Page 2

  • Elena and Amir in scene 2 of the story, looking exactly as they do on every other page

    Page 4

  • Elena and Amir in scene 3 of the story, looking exactly as they do on every other page

    Page 6

  • Elena and Amir in scene 4 of the story, looking exactly as they do on every other page

    Page 8

The details

In detail

What is pinned downHowWhen it applies
The character’s appearanceA reference portrait generated before the scenesOn every page
Physical featuresA distilled description: hair, eyes, skin, distinctive featuresOn every page
Identity within the castA fixed slot per character for the whole bookOn every page
Who appears in each sceneA per-scene cast, decided along with the textPage by page
Age across time jumpsOne portrait per life stage, aged from the originalOnly if the story jumps in time
Visual styleThe chosen style applies to cover, scenes and back coverAcross the whole book

What gets passed to the image engine in every scene of the book.

A portrait before the scenes

Before a single page is drawn, each character gets a portrait. That portrait is what gets passed as a visual reference into every later scene, alongside a distilled physical description that pins down hair, eyes, skin and features.

A fixed slot in the cast

Each character holds a fixed position in the cast for the whole book. Both the list of who appears in each scene and the order the portraits are passed in come from it, so the engine never mixes one character up with another.

And if the story jumps years ahead

When the story spans a time jump, the system declares one description per life stage and generates an aged portrait from the original: the same face, the same eye colour, the same skin, at the right age. Each page receives the portrait for the stage it belongs to.

If the portrait for a stage were missing, generation stops with an error rather than drawing the girl on the grown-up pages. There is no degraded version.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Yes. The photo is used once, to generate the character’s illustrated portrait. From then on it is that portrait, not your photo, that travels into each scene: the original photo is deleted after processing.

The same. Each of the up to 4 characters in a story has its own portrait and its own description, and every scene receives those of whoever appears in it.

You can edit their portrait, and from that point on the illustrations you regenerate will use the new version. You can also go back to an earlier portrait from the history.

You can redo just that illustration, or edit it with a specific instruction while keeping the rest of the scene. Both come out of the story’s regeneration allowance.

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