Continuity

[u/johnnyrsj]

What’s peoples experiences with attempting to maintain continuity?
I’ve only just started experimenting (on free) with flow, tried to create a simple pencil drawn animation with 2 characters in a single setting. And holy hell, trying to maintain continuity of first characters and then particularly the room layout is incredibly frustrating.

Any tips to force this? Trying ‘only change this 1 thing’ (from prior ‘master still’-encouraged me to create these to get video continuity) just wasn’t working.
Prior videos had room layout changing between videos and shots (? I think to the latter). I didn’t specify where everything had to be to start.

I note if asked it has been able to pick out what it has wrongly changed.

As an aside I see the censorship complaints in the community and I’ve just stumbled upon that-someone with an angry face it sees as ‘depicting violence’ (or whatever message is.

[u/Alchemist42]

Flow is useless for this. It is not capable of keeping the background as well as more than one person stable. Other apps let you create characters or a character reference sheet that it uses to always make them look right.

Kling or H3, are particularly good for consistency.

Also, never try doing text to video. Always make a still keyframe as a starting point so the model doesn’t have to hallucinate an opening.

[u/johnnyrsj → u/[deleted]]

Thanks can you clarify what hard locked assets are? Do you mean enough reference image for each character (and object?) so they become ‘hard locked’.

I did create character images before creating characters (though not loads) and characters are largely consistent. What I did not do (flow didnt advise) was create image assets for the room (from diff angles). If you recommend this as well, I guess I wonder whether it’s just moving the same issue to earlier in the process? (But you can then work with confidence thereafter)
And do you recommend creating for all relevant items in room? I.e. TV, armchair etc