P: Maintaining a scene or character across different prompts

Well to that I say, you are doing the best you can with what you have to work with and I compliment you on that. I suck at carpentry but I still have tools and use YT video tuts to do projects I wouldn't normally try. Like you I enjoy the craftmanship and I find it to be very rewarding. To me, I'm a carpenter, to a carpenter - ha ha ha they'd laugh but, that's ok, it brings me pleasure. Keep going, over time we all improve and Firefly may be just the thing to get people who wouldn't normally build their own media to dip their toes in the water. Fascinating times.

I am not blessed with the artist skills of creating characters and scenes.  I am a manipulator or mechanic. I like Firefly and I think it adds a needed tool for me to turn my thoughts and ideas into unique and well crafted images albiet there is a certain "slot machine" aspect to the process.  That is the "new" for  me and a wonderful tool that I can add to my tool-kit.  

I need to produce finsished products and not sketches or story boards.  I love Firefly and other forms of AI beacuse it creates new paths for me to follow that I would have never thought about.  So I guess I am a hybrid of AI and natural abilities.  The blend of old tools (blender, photoshop, poser) and new tools (Firefly)  is working for me.

A corollary thought is around text.  Wow,  I get great new story lines from a bullet point list as input but more than often the text, though creative and "new", is stilted or versbose or etc. and I have to turn to old writing skills to hone a new better product.  AI makes me better and expands my work but I'm kinda' glad that I still stay in the process and am part of the creativity.

I could also draw them by hand. I'm well aware of the options available with compositing and I've been aware of poser, blender, Cinema etc etc. The point is to streamline this with Firefly. Another reason this is desperately needed is for storyboarding. I'll just do thumbnails by hand rather than go through the gymnastics you suggest.

I appreciate your willingness to suggest workarounds but isn't the whole idea of AI to streamline the production process, not find other ways to do things the way they're done now?

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Until Firefly has this capabilty I create a character I like and download. Then I can mask all but the charater in Photoshop and then place in different Firefly produced scenes.  I can change the size of character  and colors of the clothes amd placement and can flip  but of course not the 'tween orientations.  Even with creative use of layers I can selectively place behind a prop.  Not a big payoff but a tiny work-a-round.  I did this to create 3 solo charaters from a trio and once isloated can place individual characters in different parts of a scene. Etc.

I am exploring the use of poser software that is mainly used for artists to create a particular pose to draw from.  Similar to the old school wooden posers.  The online vesrions work great and can be imported into 3D modeling programs like Blender.  The needed piece would be to have a set of clothes that are also 3D renderble that then could be used to wrap around  the body model.  I do that already with say upholstery and chairs.  Basically 3D paper doll sets.

Add to the wish list.

Welcome to club of people trying to do exactly the same thing. We're all hoping Adobe is working on this. I've see other apps that people are using with this capability so I know it can be done. If you discover a way to do it with the available tools, please PLEASE let us know. I'm trying to do some children's book illustrations and this would be mandatory for the character to carry over between images in various scenarios.

I'm trying to create a storyboard quickly. I'd like to be able to use the same character (same shirt, same hairstyle, same age / look) but I can't figure it out. Would love to do that. Or sometimes I like the image, but I don't like the style (I need it to look like a sketch). I want to be able to use the same image but ask the engine to change the style of it. Or change one part of it.

I think such a feature would be very strong. There is already the possibility to upload reference images. That already works pretty well. If I now imagine that I upload a character as a reference, which is then incorporated into all images, this would be a powerful tool.

Yes to consistent characters!

From my point of view, one of the most important features that is currently still missing: people and characters must remain the same from image to image. So that you can, for example, tell a story with the same characters over several images.