BUILD SCENES with Consistent Characters in Midjourney
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So I'm finally back from my holiday in Bali and was able to recharge my batteries a bit.
I also had the chance to finally dedicate some time to fully grasping the power of Vary, Pan, and Zoom, Midjourney's newest set of features that are poised to help everyone that is working on any form of storytelling.
That's right, it might not seem obvious at first, but if you combine all of these features into a specific workflow, you can finally craft entire scenes based on an original consistent character concept.
You guessed it. Carla Caruso is back!
It all starts off with a simple headshot on a white background. But from there, you can essentially use your character to craft any type of scene you need.
You work yourself outwards from the character's face and build out the environment. And you can even add additional characters to the scenes, giving you unprecedented control.
And guess what? You can even re-introduce another specific character into your scene, getting us one step closer towards truly multi-character scenes.
Today's video is just an appetizer. It's the tip of an iceberg.
I sincerely believe we are at the cusp of a massive step-change!
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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
00:00 Build Scenes with Consistent Characters
00:40 Part 7 of the Character Design Series
01:50 The Original Character Prompt
05:35 Building a Scene
06:06 Step 1: Vary
07:25 Step 2: Pan
09:02 Step 3: Zoom
10:41 Step 4: Pan
11:49 Step 5A: Zoom
12:59 Step 5B: Pan
17:14 Step 6: Vary
19:08 Recap
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I am a subscriber. Your series is the best on KZread I've seen on this topic, which for many of us is critical to production development. Well done sir.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate your comment. Thank you 🙂
Yay! Carla is back! I love her, please continue this series further 😊
Thanks for sharing! 🙏🏻 Videos about consistent custom characters & building scenes are always appreciated.
Your content is phenomenal. I love exploring the mysterious world of Midjourney with you. I'm glad I purchased your Master of Midjourney course. Keep going!
12:53 I love that Midjourney added the option to change the aspect ratio, but it would be helpful if we could use our own custom backgrounds (based on reference images that we provide), and place our characters within those custom backgrounds. For projects where we need a lot of control over the scene that we create, it’s important to not only have custom characters, but also custom backgrounds, and maintain consistency of these elements. When combining our characters with a background, we may want to show the scene from different camera angles, and change things like the lighting conditions (or weather conditions), but it should still maintain the same consistent look even when these changes are made.
Another great video. Thank you, Christian.
Fabulous, Chris, just fabulous. You have a way of knitting out the best of what Midjourney can and cannot do. Thank you for your generosity!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You are so welcome! 😊
Awesome. The recap at the end was also helpful, thanks :)
This is filled with information that I did not know. Much appreciated. This is going to up my game so much!!!!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Great to hear 😁
You are amazing! Thank you so much for your hard work! ❤️ btw, appreciated the biographical video a lot 🙌
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗
This is so amazing! Thank you very much Christian!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure
Your videos are really stand out from the rest. You are responsible for what you say. Awesome!
Videos are excellent man, one of the few that really provides detailed repeatable steps/templates!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
I appreciate that! 😊
Thanks Chris! This is so helpful!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
Definitely awesomeness for the detailed instructions 🙌🏽. Thank you for sharing this.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You are so welcome!
As always, another great video. Thanks for sharing.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You bet
Good stuff, thank you for all of this info!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You bet!
Ah. You continue to help my skills grow. Thank you so much. Keep rockin' it.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, will do! 🙂
Top notch!!! Ultra clear and organized.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Much appreciated!
Overall really great video thanks
incredible stuff.
Nicely done! Thank you. 👍
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Always the best. Thank you very much 🙏
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
So nice of you
Really smart! Saves me years of lifetime👏👏👏 so remix is the key feature in this workflow.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thanks! And I also think this only scratches the surface 🙂
Awesome series brotha 🎉
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
🕺🦾
Really good video. I was able to create consistent characters using Vary Strong by using an image prompt of the original image and then weighting it by say 0.25 in the remix. I wrote up a Medium Post about it: "Generating Consistent Characters in Midjourney v5.2".
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
The new Vary-Strong in combination with Remix is indeed quite a game changer.
Thank you!!!❤❤❤❤🎉🫂
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
😁
Thank you :)
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
Thanks for the information it truly helps: I’m Corey nice to meet you
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Nice to meet you too, Corey 🙂
15:35 I’m very interested in combining multiple characters together in a scene, since this is usually important for creating a full scene. But I don’t want to add the same character twice in a scene because there’s usually no point in doing that. Instead of adding a random male character to the scene like you did earlier in the video, would you be able to add a custom male character instead? I’d like to know if it’s currently possible to add multiple of my custom characters into a scene. Also, I want to be able to create interactive poses with my characters. Instead of my characters being placed in different areas of the image, I may want them closely interacting with each other. Some examples where the characters might need to closely interact is if they’re engaging in combat sports like wrestling or martial arts, or if the characters are hugging each other (or if they’re holding hands). This is something I’m hoping will be possible soon, because it would be really helpful in creating scenes for comics and graphic novels.
The reintroducing the character is cool can crop and then use canva as welll and crop thr characters and making scneses alone and place but yes its unreal the control and ability we have w prompts and consistency as well as quality is mind blowing
I will men I will . Y really killing it 🎉
I just purchased your course and I must say bro you are INSANE the work you have put in is seriously the best I have seen in a while appreciate you thank you for your efforts!!!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. That was always my plan. Over-deliver on the promise 🙂 Was a ton of work though too 😆
Very cool. I’m the beginning, where are you getting the links for the reference images? The discord links are super long normally
Carla is back baby!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
🦾💃
Chris… I just published my first children’s book because of you! THANK YOU. I spent hours watching and implementing what you were teaching. Just saw your course and as soon as I have some bucks this week, I’m all in. Thank you!
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
That's fantastic news! 😁 Love to hear stories like this. I know you guys are out there, I just rarely get to see the stuff you make.
amazing tutorial but i have created my character by hand, is there any way to create consistence poses with that?
@TokenizedAI
11 ай бұрын
Tricky with an external image
@KriGeta
11 ай бұрын
@@TokenizedAI if possible, is there a way to make a similar character like 90% close to the original?
I am all ears!
If I want to put a second character i've createdin midjourney next to the first - how do I do that?
Hi, Could you tell me what I would get from purchasing your course versus just watching your series of youtube videos? Thanks
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
The landing page is pretty clear on this.
For the shoulder strap problem or clothing etc. I've been editing the head references in Photoshop... Photoshop all of them with the same shirt, jacket, color, etc... then upload them to Midjourney for reference.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you can do that. But in this case I specifically wanted to reuse the references from the previous video, without any changes.
@blsemetan7232
Жыл бұрын
@@TokenizedAI Understood, keep up the great vids! 👍
@EiranBailey-fl1zi
Жыл бұрын
have you tried using the --no shoulder straps parameter
@agnesslovehealz
Жыл бұрын
Exactly yup
@agnesslovehealz
Жыл бұрын
And can use a remove prompt I think too
Wondering if your methods would work on objects rather than characters. I am trying to created multiple views of non-characters to use in camera shots for A.I. video. Would love to know more! Thanks.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Largely depends on how uniquely distinguishable the object is and whether you have a base prompt that reliably produces similar images.
Yes, these new features open up another level/compartment of pandora’s box. And this is only the tip of the iceberg: V6 and beyond…….
19:14 It will be great when Midjourney finally decides to introduce inpainting 😊
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Soon
@chariots8x230
Жыл бұрын
@@TokenizedAI Hopefully :)
@0Spiritus0
9 ай бұрын
They'll need to. Adobe is becoming more of monster (in a good way) than ever before. Definitely want to see Midjourney reach greater heights.
i have a question, if we use ref like that with white background, most of the results will return us white background too, how can we fix that? i tried remix with ref removed, still getting back the white bg
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
You need to use "Vary (Strong)" and you obviously need to replace "white background" with some sort of environment. If you're using Remix with low variation mode activated, then it obviously won't work because that's an entirely different type of Remixing. I'm pretty sure I show these steps with quite a bit of detail 😉
Is there any way to reference a scene instead of a character? --sref just copies the style. What if i want variations of the same scenery? Like my house for example, same house but maybe it looks older.
twitching my brain in MJ i had an idea for your next video if you can crack the code to do this, i couldnt, i tried to get the same image made in daylight "it was a website background, so i thought would be cool to sticth the image when toggles dark-mode" the idea i reemagine the same image but in night time. i let the chalenge here :D
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Oh boy, I think that would be pretty tough to be honest
where can i get a book of the midjourney language to program
@TokenizedAI
11 ай бұрын
Amazon?
I'm wondering whether there is a workflow using character sheets. I've played around with generating comic character sheets, e.g. 4x4 grid of the same character with different expressions or varying by some other feature. I find that the items in the grid are reasonably consistent. The shame is that you can't start with a single item from the grid and outpaint from that (easily anyway).
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, like a "crop" feature that you can then expand again. That would be cool.
@davidcummins8125
Жыл бұрын
@TokenizedAI Exactly. It would be easy to express in a prompt too, e.g. --crop top%,left%,width%,height%.
How to do the same in Stable diffusion?
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Outpainting, I guess?
I don't understand how to add multiple image references in the same prompt. Your example shows 8 image references, and then a prompt. How do you do that??
@TokenizedAI
6 ай бұрын
Just put them next to eachother and leave a space. /imagine
Thanks for making this Christian. I have a question please. When using "pan" feature, is the entered prompt only applying to the newly created pan area, or the new area + the original area? I asked this because you didn't mention the girl at 11:30 in the prompt when using panning. I hope you understand what I'm asking. Thanks for creating this tutorial.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Technically, with pan you should only be entering what's in the new area. But sometimes it also works with the original prompt.
@pc-bh2in
Жыл бұрын
@@TokenizedAI I see, thanks for your reply Christian.
When I clicked pan to, the image is automatically panned without allowing me to edit. I can't add modification to the prompt. Help
@TokenizedAI
11 ай бұрын
That's because you didn't activate Remix Mode.
how do you get that "copy prompt" button?
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Search for the chrome extension "Promptalot Helper".
Hello. Will this work not with people, but with animals, aliens, monsters? cartoon characters
@TokenizedAI
6 ай бұрын
Why wouldn't it? Only one way to find out :)
Okay, I give up! Great content but I've watched a dozen tutorials including yours on how to change the expressions and still create consistency and my efforts have all ended in tragedy. What am I doing wrong?
And if the straps annoy anyone can remove in other programs
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
True. But many people struggle with this.
Be interesting to see what would happen if one tried to duplicate your process, except using the current beta of the web version of Adobe Firefly
@Author_SoftwareDesigner
Жыл бұрын
Use this incomvination with lasso and cutting and pasting characters in photoshop as well as photoshop's generative fill.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Probably would be similar, except that the image quality might not be as good as MJ.
@manfrombkk
Жыл бұрын
@@TokenizedAI agreed
Have you meanwhile tried vary custom feature to get two or more Consistent Characters?
@TokenizedAI
9 ай бұрын
I think you mean Vary Region?
@derhitpula
9 ай бұрын
@@TokenizedAI Yes, correct. Any Success?
@TokenizedAI
9 ай бұрын
Midjourney's inpainting is messed up and doesn't do what it should in at least 30% of the time. It does certain things really well and completely fails at many others. It needs a lot of work, to be honest. But yes, face swapping is something it's relatively good at.
Also, how are your image references so small? Mine are enormous.
@TokenizedAI
6 ай бұрын
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "small". If you mean the shortened URL, those are created by Midjourney itself, once you've entered a command that contains an image prompt.
Using red hair is a common cheat for "consistent" characters. Because there are fewer redhead face examples that Midjourney has sampled, and the hair distracts the mind from facial differences. I challenge anyone to create a consistent character that isn't a red haired woman. Or a pirate with an eyepatch, which is impossible! Try to create just one image of a pirate with an eyepatch!
@TokenizedAI
7 ай бұрын
Looking for the hair in the soup. The eyepatch issue also has nothing to do with consistency. That's a coherence problem.
Face swap discord bot from insight face is a simple solution for consistent characters. Appreciate your hard work on the videos though.
@batidavital
Жыл бұрын
from the midjourney channel?
@KycokOv4arku
Жыл бұрын
@@batidavital another dc bot, could work with midjourney images)
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I see that more as complementary. Specifically for those who are incredibly picky about facial details.
@controlaltai
Жыл бұрын
@@TokenizedAI I am acquainted with one of the devs who created the technology. I have made a video tutorial on it. It has some limitations but works on realistic photos as well as anime style / cartoon characters. If you see the tutorial you will get how it works and why it works and it's basically the only way to get very accurate results in different scenes.
I say this with the deepest respect and only wanting to help you. In the beginning of the video, you show Carla in poses and pictures, but those do not happen later in the video. This is confusing for me. I was expecting to see Carla in a tavern playing a guitar being produced by a prompt.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
The video would have ended up being 45 minutes long if I showed every single example. Many wouldn't watch the video then. The approach is always the same. The only thing that changes is the image that you want to create. Start with the head, pan the body (and choose an activity/pose if you must), custom zoom out a bit, pan the environment, custom zoom out the full scene. No need to repeat the same thing multiple times.
Maybe the word European is illiciting the shoulder straps. Think Lederhosen.
@TokenizedAI
Жыл бұрын
lol, I never thought of it that way but I think you might be on to something 😆
WAY TOO fast! Confusing.
To fast, talking too fast. Very confusing. Makes me feel like giving up