Your AI Hero Turns Into a Stranger Every Shot. The Fix Is a Document, Not a Better Prompt.

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A working tutorial for building a character bible that survives a stateless pipeline, from someone who lost a whole afternoon to a heroine who would not stay the same person.

The first time I tried to cut a real scene of Lost Garden, my dark-fantasy anime series, my lead character changed faces four times in eleven shots.

Shot one, she had a thin scar over her left eyebrow and dark amber eyes. Shot four, the scar jumped to the right side. Shot seven, her eyes had gone green and her jaw had narrowed into someone else entirely. By shot eleven she looked like her own cousin. Every individual shot was fine. Lit well, composed well, each one a frame I would have been happy to put on the screen a year ago. Put in sequence, they were unusable, because the audience would have spent the whole scene wondering why...

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