From Archive to Story: Character-Consistent Image Pipelines with Gemini Nano Banana

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✨ Overview

We all have existing images worth reusing in different contexts. Doing so typically involves modifying the images, a complex (if not impossible) task requiring very specific skills and tools. This explains why our archives are full of forgotten or unused treasures. State-of-the-art vision models have evolved so much that we can reconsider this problem.

So, can we breathe new life into our visual archives?

Let's take on this challenge with the following steps:

• 1️⃣ Start with an archive image we'd like to reuse
• 2️⃣ Extract a character to create a brand-new reference image
• 3️⃣ Generate a series of images to illustrate the character's journey, using only prompts and...

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