Character Design Continuity

Use this skill to make a character stay recognizably the same while still acting, aging, changing costume, moving through shots, or adapting to a campaign's style. Treat continuity as a production system, not a single prompt trick.

Ground rules

Separate three kinds of guidance in your reasoning:

• Documented facts: cite a source or the user's approved materials.
• Empirical observations: describe what happened in the latest generation or test batch.
• Production heuristics: useful craft rules that improve odds but are not guarantees.

Do not promise perfect identity preservation from text prompts alone. Current image and video systems can drift on facial structure, body proportions, hands, age, wardrobe, markings, props, and style. Strong continuity comes from a character bible, reference strategy, constrained prompt planning, iterative selection, and QA.

Start with the continuity intent

Before designing or repairing a character, identify: