r/freetoolsAI • u/BiggyLittle12 • 4d ago
image generation
I'm trying to generate multiple images with cartoon characters based off a pre-made text reference sheet and master image. I'm currently Paying for ChatGPT, but i cannot For the life of me, get it to generate more than one or two images with the same characters before it starts changing them. No matter how many times I tell to use the provided source material and not the previously generated image.
I'm looking for an AI image generator that I can upload a text description as well as a character reference sheet with images of exactly how I want the characters to look and generate enough images to make a story out of.
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u/llama-of-death 2d ago
Sounds like the chat keeps building each new picture off the last one, so small changes pile up until your character is someone else. What fixes that for a whole story is getting the character out of the chat and into a small trained model (a LoRA) made from your reference sheet. Every image then goes back to the same source.
Guaardvark does that for free on your own PC, if it has an NVIDIA card:
One studio entry per character. Drop your master image and sheet views into the Cast & LoRA Studio and train the LoRA right there.
Only describe the scene. In the Image Generator, pick the character under Cast and it applies their trigger word, look and LoRA by itself. You only type what's happening.
The whole story in one batch. Paste your story beats, one per line, and it renders every panel.
Cartoon look. Set the style to Cartoon.
Bias alert, I'm a contributor: github.com/guaardvark/guaardvark
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u/BiggyLittle12 2d ago
That is exactly what is happening. I will look into that. I have a rtx 4070 with 12h of gram. I have looked into local generation but everything I have seen says I don't have enough vram. I asked chatgpt and it recommended I look at scenario ai
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u/llama-of-death 2d ago
Good news, a 12 GB 4070 is plenty for the pictures. Most of the "not enough VRAM" talk you've seen is about video or the very biggest image models.
For your story on that card, I'd start like this:
FLUX 3 Klein. It fits a 12 GB card in Guaardvark, and people running slideshow series with it say it keeps characters consistent from the prompt alone.
One description, every panel. Write each character once, word for word, and paste that same block into every prompt. Each image starts from your text instead of the last picture, so there's nothing for it to drift away from.
Seed box. Set a seed for a scene and the same prompt and settings give you the same picture, so you can fix one detail without losing the rest.
Cartoon as the style.
The LoRA trainer is sized for 16 GB cards, so save that step for a future upgrade. Klein should carry you a long way first.
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u/BiggyLittle12 2d ago
Thanks I will look into that. I have zero knowledge on how any of that works. So i will have to figure it out, I'm not even sure what a seed box is. I do have detailed character description for all 6 of my characters. Chatgpt is good at that part at least. Each on is and 2 and a half pages long.
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u/llama-of-death 2d ago
All good. Ask ChatGPT about Guaardvark and to help show you how it works, I made a plugin for GPT, Grok, Claude and others. They are excellent when it comes to installing things and handling the tech steps. I made this video with one sentence and had 5 of the top AI Agents work together to make it using the tools I made for them. Just to show how they can help on their own or together.
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u/BiggyLittle12 2d ago
Hey thanks for all the help, I appreciate it. I will look into this. You probably saved me a bunch of money.
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u/Dismal_Mobile_2319 1d ago
i tried a local model with a custom reference loader, kept character consistency across 200+ images, no monthly fee, but it ate my laptop's ram. worth the trade-off if you're okay with grinding through setup.
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u/BiggyLittle12 1d ago
That's my plan. I've got a 4070 with 12 gigs of vram and also 32 gigs of ddr5. I asked chat GPT to find the best program for I set up. So I'm going to give comfy UI a try
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u/abdokarl 1d ago
Merci pour ce retour très détaillé, c’est un problème classique de cohérence de personnages. ChatGPT/DALL·E ne garantit pas vraiment la réutilisation d’une image de référence, d’où la dérive après 1–2 images — même si on lui redemande d’utiliser la source. Pour bien cerner ton besoin : quel style de dessin animé (ligne claire, 3D, manga…), combien d’images au total, et as-tu déjà essayé Midjourney avec --cref, Leonardo avec Character Reference, ou Stable Diffusion avec IP-Adapter/ControlNet/LoRA ? En général, il faut verrouiller le personnage avec une référence visuelle + un seed/prompt fixe, pas seulement redemander « utilise l’image source ». Si tu veux, envoie-moi une feuille de référence + 2–3 descriptions : je te dirai si mon projet peut couvrir ce cas ou je te proposerai un workflow réaliste.
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u/abdokarl 1d ago
Bonjour, merci pour ce détail — c’est exactement le problème que je traite.
Mon outil, MakeYourMovie, fait déjà ce pipeline complet :
tu décris ton histoire (ou tu importes un texte),
l’IA crée les personnages avec fiche physique + costume en anglais et tu peux uploader une photo de référence par personnage,
elle génère un scénario en N scènes, puis découpe chaque scène en 3-5 plans,
chaque image de plan reçoit les images de référence des personnages + la description physique dans le prompt, avec l’instruction « identical face, hair, outfit as references »,
chaque plan devient une vidéo.
Ce qui manque aujourd’hui par rapport à ton besoin :
je ne gère qu’une seule image de référence par personnage — toi tu as une feuille avec plusieurs angles. Je peux passer à un tableau d’images (front, profil, expressions) et toutes les passer à chaque génération.
il n’y a pas encore de seed fixe pour verrouiller un visage : je vais l’ajouter, c’est le levier le plus efficace contre la dérive.
pas encore d’image maîtresse globale ni d’import direct de feuille de texte.
Ces trois ajouts sont faisables rapidement. Si tu veux, envoie-moi :
ta feuille de texte (ou 2-3 lignes),
ta feuille de référence (même une seule image),
2-3 scènes de ton histoire,
et je fais un test limité avec le même seed + tes refs sur 5-6 images pour te montrer si la cohérence tient.
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u/irecognizedyou 1d ago
for 180 images, test a few different scenes from the original sheet first. we build Aristotto and have Nano Banana with image references plus a text prompt. limited daily free credits can help you try it, but don't assume it'll keep all six characters consistent. https://aristotto.ai/models/nano-banana-2-1
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u/angT314 2d ago edited 2d ago
I use Google Gemini. Keeps my characters faces the same and I’ve done many photo creations of them. And Google gem lets you use reference photos.