The outcome

Produce an attributable concept sheet whose important design choices can be reproduced and legally reviewed.

NovelAI is a Privacy-oriented AI storytelling and anime-style image generation platform with lore, memory, editing, and creative-control tools. Developing fiction with controlled context, memory and lorebooks; exploring story branches; generating anime-inspired concept art; and maintaining private, exportable creative projects. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Define the original character, silhouettes, palette, clothing, expressions, poses, views, exclusions, audience, reference rights, and similarity limits.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 04

    Review anatomy, identity drift, text and signatures, protected-character similarity, stereotypes, costume continuity, artifacts, and every reference's influence.

  5. 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.

Generated prose and images can reproduce clichés, stereotypes, signatures, recognizable characters, or material too similar to existing work. NovelAI's privacy model does not replace backups: forgotten credentials can make encrypted stories unrecoverable, deleted stories cannot be restored, and unsaved image sessions disappear. Preserve metadata when reproducibility matters, clear rights for references and sharing, review Explore uploads carefully, and keep human editorial ownership.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.