With Autopilot, we offer a consistent character feature where you can lock in up to three main characters with complete customization and control. You can be the star of your own show and bring along your friends, or you can tell a story about all three of your best friends playing a game of pool. What's even better, is that you can have these characters consistent in all of your Autopilot projects.
How do I lock in main characters for my projects?
On the Track page, you would click into Character, just above the timeline. From there, you'll see a few options:
Auto: Our AI generates the main character for you based on your Video Concept, lyrics, and overall tone of your song
No Character: Choose this option if you do not want a main character of your project.
❗ Note: This doesn't remove humans or characters altogether. If you wish to not have any characters at all, you'd want to prompt something likeNO: Characters NO: Humansin your Video Concept.New Character: Text prompt or upload an image of a character
Previous characters: You'll see all of your previously generated Autopilot characters here, helpful in creating a series of videos with the same main character
New Character
This is where you will either generate a prompt for your character, or upload an image of your character. For realistic and human characters, we don't recommend adding a Style to the character.
For every character that you upload, you must go through this process of uploading them and assigning them a name.
How do I upload characters?
Click on Upload at the bottom right-hand side, then upload your character. Once you see the character image, click the orange Create button. From there, you'll be prompted to name your character - this is how you will reference them in your Video Concepts, Starting Images, and Video Prompts. For realistic and human characters, we don't recommend adding a Style to the character.
How do I prompt for a character?
An ideal consistent character has a description of a few sentences with defining keywords. Here are some examples:
A fuzzy green alien with an antenna that has a glowing heart at the top. The alien has a light smile on their face, showing their welcoming attitude. In some scenes, the fuzzy green alien wears a silver spacesuit, and in other scenes the alien is wearing jean overalls to show their human-like nature. The fuzzy green alien has large googly eyes and no nose, their feet appear large with purple toenails.
The character subject of the video is a female superwoman with glowing a glowing purple costume, and a flowing lavender cape. The female superwoman has a beautiful olive skin-tone which resembles her Egyptian heritage, and long luxurious and thick dark brown hair. She has a serious face with sharp facial features - determined and mission-driven eyes, a confident smile, and a sharp jaw. She wears her costume modestly while still being a strong female presence.
A fierce McLaren that has a metallic orange color with sharp bright purple LED headlights drives in the empty late-night streets of Tokyo. The McLaren has a vibrant finish of the orange metallic gloss, and reflects the city lights of Tokyo with pride. Alive and full of tension, the McLaren can drive from 0-60 in a matter of seconds, soaring through the streets and sometimes making air at steep hills. The McLaren has large rear intakes, sculpted sides with flowing lines, carbon-fiber accents, and signature McLaren badges.
Once you select the character that you've generated, you'll be prompted to name your character - this is how you will reference them in your Video Concepts, Starting Images, and Video Prompts.
How do I trigger the character in my prompts?
In your prompts, you can tag or mention the character by using @CharacterName (the name that you set the character to). As an example, if I named the orange McLaren "ORANGESPORT", I'd want to include the McLaren in a prompt that looks like this:
The loud and vibrant @ORANGESPORT takes control of the city streets at night, driving over 150 miles per hour down a long, curvy road. The city skyscrapers warp around the view of the car going at a fast pace. On long hills, the @ORANGESPORT jumps in the air at a high speed. Fast, quick camera work, action film style.
You'll know that the character is in your story by looking at the Keyframe, seeing an icon of your character/asset and the name that you gave to it.
How do I make sure that all of my characters are included?
When clicking into the Character portal, you'll see all of your characters. Select the 3 characters that you'd like to see and ensure they all have pink borders around them, and then select Apply Selection. That's how you know they'll be a part of your video!
Can I prompt for additional characters?
Yes! In your Video Concept you can prompt for additional characters, but it's important to note that this is subject to the AI and what makes sense to the AI. It's important to note that these characters do not have any control the way that your consistent characters do.
I'm also seeing that there's consistent objects. What's up with that?
For each video that's created, our AI uses the combination of the Video Concept and the overall tone/lyrics of your song to find objects or other assets in your videos. If you wish to see these objects in more of your keyframes, you'd want to tag them accordingly. You'll see the option to tag your character or object by clicking @, and then the character/asset is triggered when you see their asset image and name indicated in the Keyframe Prompt.
Example: @Julie sits in her @Retro Bedroom with the @Anthropomorphic Boombox singing to her, with the @CRT Monitor exploding in the background).