Leonardo AI is one of the popular text-to-image generator tools. It also has a free plan that gives 150 credits daily to generate images. You can generate multiple images for your AI video with Leonardo AI. However, images for different scenes for your animated kids’ videos have one challenge: the images do not have consistent characters. In this article, I will show you how you can create consistent characters with Leonardo AI.
What are consistent characters?
Consistent characters maintain their traits, appearance, and behavior across different contexts, stories, or media.
How to create consistent characters with Leonardo AI
While creating kids animated videos with AI, it is always a challenging task to add consistent characters to your videos. Usually, AI tools generate different characters every time you generate a new image. This has one disadvantage: your videos do not get much audience retention. Due to this, the YouTube algorithm also stops promoting your videos to new viewers. Now, you can create consistent characters with Leonardo AI using this simple method. I will show you how to do that.
This process requires the following steps:
- Get a detailed prompt to define your character
- Activate the seed in Leonardo AI to maintain consistency for your characters throughout multiple scenes.
First, write a prompt to describe your character. Your prompt should have all the necessary details for your character. For example, the prompt should contain information like your character’s skin color, his/her hair color and hair style, his/her dress color, etc.
If you cannot write the prompt to describe your character, you can take the help of another AI tool, like ChatGPT. Go to ChatGPT and describe your story to ChatGPT, so it can be trained for your next questions. Now, ask ChatGPT to write a prompt for your main character(s). For example, in my adventurous story, Lila was the main character. I wanted consistent images of this character. I wrote the following prompt:
Animated Pixar style image of a cheerful 7-year-old girl with curly brown hair and a red scarf, wearing yellow t shirt, blue trousers, and blue shoes, and carrying a small green backpack.
Now, visit the official website of Leonardo AI and create your account. You can use your Apple, Google, or Microsoft account to sign up on the platform. An alternative method to register through another email address is also available on the platform.
Select the Image AI tool of Leonardo AI, and then select the required model for image generation. Phoenix is the latest model for image generation. Select the aspect ratio for your images and then paste the copied prompt. Hit the Generate button. Leonardo AI generates 4 images for every image prompt in the free plan. You can view and download the best image. If you do not like the images, you can generate more images.
When the images are generated, click on the three dots next to the generated images and select Copy Seed.
Now, scroll down to the bottom of the left pane and expand the Advanced settings tab. Turn on the option that says Use Fixed Seed and paste the copied seed there. Seed is a number for the generated image that tells the Leonardo AI to use the particular image as a reference image for generating other images.
Now, enter the second prompt to generate images for the next scene of your story. Do not forget to edit the prompt. In addition to activating the fixed seeds for your images, it will be better if you add your main character’s description to every prompt. See how I added the main character’s description to every image prompt in Leonardo AI.
In the above screenshot, the highlighted part shows the character description. I added the character description to every prompt, and Leonardo AI gave me the images for every scene with a consistent character.
That’s it. This is how you can create consistent characters for your stories with Leonardo AI. While creating consistent characters, the important thing is the character’s description. Remember, you have to define every single detail of your character in fewer words.
How do I keep my character consistent?
Some specific AI tools allow you to create consistent characters for every scene of your story. Leonardo AI is the best AI tool for this purpose. You can activate the Fixed Seed feature in Leonardo AI to generate consistent characters. Leonardo AI uses the Seed feature to consider a particular image as a reference image for generating all other images.
Is Leonardo AI free?
Leonardo AI is available in both free and paid plans. In the free plan, you will get 150 credits daily to generate images. Each Image generation costs some credits. The latest Flux model costs 24 credits to generate every image. By default, it generates 4 images in the free plan. If the image generation fails, the used credits are refunded automatically.
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