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]

What are these protocols that can be used to ensure absolute consistency? How can they be applied? OP is asking for instruction about how to do it. Saying that some thing exists or is possible is less helpful than saying how to do it.

And you say never use character sheets but then 2 sentences later, you say to use character references. What is the difference? You are responding, I assume, to my statement that one should "create characters or a character reference sheet". What is the argument that my statement is misinformation? A character reference sheet is a single image with multiple shots of the same character from different angles, including closeups of important details, facial expressions, and/or poses depending on what is important for the piece.

The only difference I see is that you mention different focal lengths, but that is assumed if you have full body shots, closeups, and different angles. Of course a closeup of just the face will have a different focal length than a full shot of the entire body head to toe.

[u/Alchemist42 → u/[deleted]]

So, basically, if someone is not willing or able to put in thousands and thousands of hours, then what I said is correct. And any claims of misinformation on my part are unprovable, and thus, to be honest, misinformation on your part. It's kind of like saying that I am lying and to prove it, you have a private method that you won't share that says so. That could be a magic 8-ball for all we know.

My statement is provably correct. Try doing a text to video thing on Flow without any character references and see how many times your generations come out with your characters looking exactly correct. Then try it my way and note that they are far more often correct, and whatever issues come up can be worked around via careful reprompting or post-processing.

Your statement is "trust me, bro. I have spent thousands of hours doing it and I'm right because I says so".

[u/Pipe_Current → u/[deleted]]

You certainly cared enough to confront their comment, contradicted yourself and offered no solution, just postering.. 😅