AI Video Character Reference Sheet - Full Turnaround
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AI Video Character Reference Sheet - Full Turnaround

AI Video Character Reference Sheet - Full Turnaround—a ChatGPT prompt with character design and character art direction.

#character design#character#animation#video

Best used for

Use for character exploration, portrait studies, costume variations, or visual-development boards.

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The prompt

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Create a professional AI Video — Character Reference Sheet for the provided character image. Create a polished 4:5 portrait continuity sheet focused exclusively on the character:
1. CHARACTER PROFILE — name, role, approximate age, height, body type, personality, distinctive traits, and signature colors.
2. FULL-BODY TURNAROUND — front, 3/4, side, and back views of the exact same character at matching scale, with identical facial features, hairstyle, body proportions, costume, colors, and accessories.
3. FACE AND IDENTITY DETAILS — front, profile, and 3/4 head-and-shoulder close-ups showing facial structure, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, hairstyle, skin tone, makeup, scars, tattoos, and other defining features.
4. EXPRESSION SHEET — neutral, happy, angry, sad, surprised, worried, confident, and determined expressions. Preserve the exact same facial structure and identity in every expression.
5. POSE AND BODY LANGUAGE — neutral standing, walking, sitting, relaxed, tense, and action-ready poses. Maintain consistent anatomy, proportions, posture, and silhouette.
6. COSTUME DETAILS — close-ups of clothing layers, fabrics, seams, fasteners, footwear, jewelry, eyewear, markings, logos, and other character-defining wardrobe elements.
7. COLOR AND MATERIAL PALETTE — include 4–6 key colors with HEX codes, plus references for skin, hair, fabric, leather, metal, plastic, armor, or other visible materials.
8. DO NOT CHANGE — lock the character’s face, identity, skin tone, age, hair, eye color, body shape, proportions, costume, accessories, markings, colors, and defining features. Do not redesign, beautify, age, stylize, simplify, or create alternate versions.
Use a clean white or neutral studio background, soft controlled lighting, realistic materials, sharp details, subtle shadows, clean typography, thin dividers, balanced spacing, and a sophisticated editorial production-design grid.
Every panel must depict the exact same character with absolute visual consistency. Focus only on the character. Do not include props, additional characters, environments, unrelated objects, or alternate outfits.

Refinement notes

Three useful ways to customize it

01

Subject and action

Replace the central subject first, then adjust its pose, action, expression, or relationship to the scene.

02

Composition and light

Change the viewpoint, crop, negative space, light direction, and contrast before layering on more style words.

03

Output shape

The saved reference uses 1:1. Change the aspect ratio to match the final placement before refining small details.