With Autopilot, we offer a consistent character feature where you can lock in a main character with complete customization. You can be the star of your own show, or you can introduce a cool alien into your projects. What's even better, is that you can have this character consistent in all of your Autopilot projects.
How do I lock in a main character for my project?
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.
How do I upload a character?
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.
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.
Can I create a second character?
Yes! We now have something called Asset Consistency where you can prompt a second character - you can also prompt for objects (like an umbrella for a rainy story), a book or flag, basically anything you want. When prompting for a secondary character, we recommend prompting similar to how you would a main character. It's always best to be as descriptive as possible to ensure that your video is exactly how you'd like to see it.
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 it's in purple text.
Example: @Julie sits in her @Retro Bedroom with the @Anthropomorphic Boombox singing to her, with the @CRT Monitor exploding in the background).