How do you keep an AI-generated character consistent across images?

Choose one completed character result as the reference, then reuse that exact Variant instead of describing the character again from memory. Keep each derived scene's Recipe and exact References beside its media; compare sibling Variants for drift; and explicitly select the Variant that represents the Asset. This gives every attempt a stable visual input and a traceable decision, although reference-conditioned generation can reduce drift rather than eliminate it.

What should become the character reference?

Start with a clean result whose identity, clothing, proportions, and props are suitable for reuse. Compare sibling Variants and select the one that represents the character Asset. The public Night Market recorded session shows Mara the Lantern-Keeper as one Asset with three completed Variants; 4904331f is main.

How do you reuse that exact Variant in a scene?

The session passed Mara's exact selected Variant, a lantern Variant, and the selected market-square Variant into Lantern Lighting — vignette:

makefx image derive --refs asset:mara-the-lantern-keeper~0f4af497@4904331f,asset:the-brass-lantern~de879414@f677a830,asset:night-market-square~ef239e5a@58d45f21 --name "Lantern Lighting — vignette" --type composite "Mara reaches up to hang her glowing brass lantern on a stall post, warm light spilling over wet cobblestones and nearby faces"

✓ asset:lantern-lighting-vignette~a36ccfb1@8de24c27 · 3 references

The result's Recipe retains the prompt and ordered References, which compute the input graph from all three source Variants. The compact loop is: generate character → compare siblings → Activate the main result → reference that exact Variant in a new Asset → inspect and select the result.

What should you do when the character drifts?

A Reference is evidence for the model, not a pixel lock. Faces, hands, clothing, pose, lighting, and composition can still move. Compare every result with the selected character; Vary one deliberate change at a time and state what must stay fixed.

Read Core Concepts for the record, Model & Parameter Selection for current reference inputs, or the video consistency workflow for motion. Start the MakeFX quickstart to use this loop with your own media.