How to Use ChatGPT for Character Consistency & Storytelling (Pro ...)
Keeping a character consistent across scenes, styles, and stories used to be really hard. Whether you’re drawing them by hand, using Photoshop endlessly, or collaborating with multiple illustrators—something always changes. But with ChatGPT, it has become shockingly easy.
From generating consistent poses and emotions to placing your characters in dynamic scenes and even animating them—this tutorial will guide you through all of that, step by step, within ChatGPT. The best part is you don’t need to be an artist to achieve this.
Start Simple
I provided ChatGPT with a prompt to create a young male character in casual clothes and a red baseball cap, in a relaxed pose, Disney cartoon style. In seconds, it delivered a cute, full-body character. If you're satisfied with the outcome, you can reuse that character as your visual anchor throughout your story.
💡 Pro Tip: If ChatGPT cuts off parts of the body, you can simply re-prompt it to show the full body with a specific aspect ratio to ensure no limbs are cut off.
Consistency isn’t just about looks—it also encompasses the character's feelings. I then prompted ChatGPT to create an emotion sheet for the character, displaying a range of expressions like happy, sad, surprised, and angry. The result was a set of perfectly matched face shapes, accurate portrayals of emotions, maintaining the same red cap and cartoon styling.
💡 Bonus: This feature is ideal for those working on children's books, comics, or any project requiring expressive visuals.
Bring Your Story to Life
I asked ChatGPT to create a short story in six scenes where the character is looking for his lost dog. Prompting it scene by scene to generate images based on the story, each illustration matched the character design and the scene’s tone perfectly, creating a captivating visual narrative.
Now, add a touch of magic with animation. By using Luma AI’s Dream Machine combined with music from Udio and voice-overs from Eleven Labs, I was able to produce a short animated story that felt heartfelt and cinematic.
Exploring Different Styles
With ChatGPT, you can easily transform your character into various styles like South Park, Cubism, Simpsons, Rick and Morty, and more. By prompting ChatGPT to recreate your character in the desired style, it can handle the conversion seamlessly, maintaining features like clothing, pose, and accessories across different styles effortlessly.
Create Comics Effortlessly
If you want to turn your story into a comic, ChatGPT can help with that too. By prompting it to create a comic strip of your character making coffee with speech bubbles and background, ChatGPT will deliver the comic ready for use. You can even request specific changes to the images, making the editing process intuitive and straightforward.
Whether you’re a hobbyist, educator, indie developer, or a beginner, ChatGPT provides you with the tools to bring your stories to life—all from your browser. No art degree required.
