The outcome
Produce an attributable concept sheet whose important design choices can be reproduced and legally reviewed.
Step by step
A workflow you can repeat.
- 01
Define the original character, silhouettes, palette, clothing, expressions, poses, views, exclusions, audience, reference rights, and similarity limits.
- 02
Choose the model and aspect ratio, use structured lower-case tags or natural language as documented, add undesired content, and generate a small exploratory set.
- 03
Select by design rather than polish, record seed and settings, and vary one controlled element at a time using reference or inpainting only with authorized inputs.
- 04
Review anatomy, identity drift, text and signatures, protected-character similarity, stereotypes, costume continuity, artifacts, and every reference's influence.
- 05
Save through the metadata-preserving control, export the session before leaving, refine manually, document generation, and complete rights and publication review.
Working standard
What good use looks like.
- Save with embedded metadata.
- Change one variable per iteration.
- Avoid recognizable protected characters.
Official references