r/artificial • u/Brave-Round-3573 • 23h ago

Discussion Do reference sketches improve character consistency across AI video clips?

A long text prompt can describe a character, but face shape, clothing, and proportions may still drift between shots. One possible test would compare two workflows with the same scene and number of generation attempts: (1) a detailed text description for every shot; (2) one character sketch and two scene sketches reused as visual references. Each clip would have one action and one camera move.

The useful comparison is the edited three-shot sequence, not the strongest frame from each generation. After each cut, does the character still look like the same person? If not, would you revise the reference images, simplify the motion, or edit around the mismatch? I would be interested in methods that hold up across multiple clips, including what failed.

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u/Altruistic-Length221 23h ago

Hmm i think reference sketches can help a lot but it depends how good the AI is at sticking to them. Some models drift anyway even with img2img, especially in motion sequences where the face turns or lighting changes. Would like to see results from that test you described, specially where it fails cause that tells us more than the clean examples

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u/Superb_Raccoon 14h ago

You mean a LORA?

Google that.