For animators & directors

Keep characters consistent across your storyboard

A storyboard has to read at a glance, and it can't if your lead looks like a different person in every frame. Here is how to hold a character across a sequence of shots so the board communicates the scene, not the drift.

Boarding a sequence means drawing the same character over and over, from wide establishing shots to tight inserts. If the face or costume shifts frame to frame, the board stops reading as one continuous scene. Generative editing lets you anchor every frame to one character reference so your lead stays recognisable as the camera and blocking change.

Board from a reference, not from the previous frame

Set a clear reference for each character in the sequence. Then generate each frame by describing the shot — the angle, the staging, the action — and naming the identity anchors that carry: the face, the coat, the key prop. Because every frame pulls from the same reference rather than the last output, small drifts never compound down a long sequence.

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Little Red Riding Hood2 frames · one character

What board work asks that a single reference can't always give

• Big staging swings — a low hero angle, a character mid-fall, a reverse over-the-shoulder — need views a front reference never showed, which can soften the likeness. Feed a reference at that angle or accept a re-run for the tricky frames.
• Multi-character frames are harder than singles. Provide a reference per character in the frame and describe who stands where, then review closely so no one borrows a neighbour's features.
• These are boards, not final animation. The output gives you consistent frames and continuity reference — it does not produce moving, in-betweened animation. Hand the board to your animatic and animation pipeline.

Review the sequence as a strip

Lay the frames out in order and read them together before you cut an animatic. A strip view makes the one off-model frame jump out far faster than judging each in isolation. Re-run the outlier against the same reference, then take the sequence into your editing tool. Keep the reference-sheet planner beside you to organise a scene's cast before you board.