The Tricks to Consistent Characters in Midjourney Version 5

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:20 Foundational Subject
1:55 Variations
3:12 New Prompt
4:26 Other Tricks
7:45 Character Sheet
9:36 Big Trick

[ElysterStaux]

Man, your videos are really satisfying to watch. Thanks

[fil]

Excellent! ...and you mentioned the magic word: Photoshop! For graphic designers this Ai is invaluble...most people will just play around with it! EXAMPLE: A colleague of mine designs and makes bespoke clothing. I can reproduce an exact 'look' in a number of poses without needing to do a location camera shoot! This becomes particularly useful when you use the 'mergeing' of image and background. I found the process frustrating at first, but as you say...once you have the images you need and the suitable prompts 'pasted' the world has no limits! Thank you.

[lucaszapico]

Hey man, just wanted to say thank you. There have been a lot of content grabs around this challenge with really low quality. It was heavy I’ll effecting the use cases for midjourney for me. 🙏🙏

[jeantimex]

This is so good, especially the explanation of those magic -- arguments, thank you!

[avidlearner]

That's just what I needed to use Midjourney more!! Thanks man, always appreciate your content 🎉

[dvdwilhelm]

Finally someone who doesn't want to make the viewers believe that he has the holy grail. Keep it up!

[aiandseewhy]

I teach Midjourney full time on Fiverr and I do commissions and prompt building. I just wanted to say I am really impressed with this video it is definitely the best I have seen so far. The rampant misinformation that is spread on YouTube is highly annoying so this is truly a breath of fresh air. I have subscribed and I’m looking forward to seeing more.

[snowdragon]

It will be a lovely day when we can generate consistent characters in Midjourney! I think it will happens eventually. I'm interested to see all the stories people will create once we can generate consistent characters.

[chomsky]

I think the company is actually working on this feature to get consistent characters, especially when doing character concepts.

[controlaltai]

Thank you, if you don’t mind I will mention the same in one of my videos and quote you. Cause I feel you nailed it and there is no point in me covering it again, I reached to the same conclusion.

[TheEdnablue]

Just what I needed a reference image with different scenes, thanks 🤩💙

[harrygoldhagen]

Thanks for exploding some of these persistent myths! Consistency is not what MJ is about right now. To me, it seems easier to create characters and backgrounds separately and then combine them in Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint. I'd like to try these tips with comic book characters. Perhaps getting consistency by naming a genre or artist. Thanks again!

[LoneIrbis]

Do you have any tips to use two specific characters in same scene, considering I have portraits of both and need them in particular setting doing particular things? Let's say if you want that exact (or very similar) silver-haired model girl sitting on a bench next to that purple hair girl and exchanging a handshake, how would you do that?

Also I'm curious if there's any way to make custom variables in Midjourney. I know we can set option list, but it doesn't seem quite the same. What I mean is something like this:
_Alice = "(link to portrait) instagram model with pointy ears dressed like a rabbit"
_Bob = "(link to portrait) middle aged man, blue hair, colorful clothes"
_My_style = "art style blend of photoreal and whatever specific artist"
/imagine _Alice and _Bob walking through the modern city, looking surprised, _My_style
Something like that could've make creating illustrations a lot less of a pain, especially if set variables would assume that character is supposed to look similar and consistent if there's an image link.

Anyway, thanks for this video and your channel overall, I find it very informative, considering I'm just starting to learn Midjourney.

[elonmusksellssnakeoil]

There is one exception to reacting to your images in Midjourney - if you react with the Envelope emoji, it will send you a private message with that image, so you can find out the seed number, and have a link to go back to the image when it was generated it any time you want.

[FrankBesnier]

This was great! Im really new in Midjourney, and I already have gotten nice results.

[chriswallace]

Midjourney views things as archetypes from my understanding and will stick to general things about them. The strength in which Midjourney sticks to them depends on the "version" you're using.

Consider re-wording: "model" is an archetype and one of the things models are known for is looking into the camera since they are generally posing for one. Using the term "model" will increase the likely hood of the subject looking at the camera. Try to find a replacement for "model." Here are some examples to further demonstrate what I mean:

Example 1 - say I wanted a cat with purple hair. In this case, the archetype is "cat" and cats don't have purple hair. As a result, Midjourney will resist creating this. Again, to what degree depends on the "version" you are using. So, in this case, you might try saying "filinoid" (I believe is the term, like humanoid). Now Midjourney doesn't view the subject as a cat and will be more likely to produce what you want because you have changed the archetype.

Example 2 - If I wanted to create an image of She-Hulk (the comic version not the show lol) I would not want to say "A woman with green skin" because women don't have green skin. So instead I might say something like "Female humanoid body-builder" so now Midjourney focuses on the subject being a humanoid instead of a regular human. Again, this changes the archetype.

This is how I have come to understand it so far. Results will still vary, because of course they will lol, but it does help in guiding Midjourney closer to what you are looking for. I Hope this helps.

love your content, keep up the great work my friend. 😊😊😊

[neilslater]

Remix is MJ's version of img2img (from Stable Diffusion), but without any control over degree of change (and of course they don't let you upload your own images) - I guess it's similar to always setting original image strength to 75%. So if your new prompt wants large changes, that's when the weird stuff happens - when it tries to fit the pose or extra details you want into the colour blocks that already exist.

[dao_studios]

I struggle so much with this. So many characters. Getting two in same scene is tough.

[KungfuandKettlebells]

Very helpful, but it also is more evidence that I need to start learning Stable Diffusion 😂

[pongtrometer]

Did you also try keeping the same seed number of a rendered scene you like, and developing that to try and maintain some consistency as you guide the new prompts.