Consistent Character Control in Midjourney (Including Multiple Characters)

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[@glibatree]

So glad to hear people are putting it to good use!

[@ahmedkhattab9899]

Same situation! I'm also generating images continuously for 4 days with only 2 acceptable results. this video is gold

[@ThePsyopCop]

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[@glibatree]

This is very high praise, and I really appreciate your kind words! Thanks for watching and good luck on your project!

[@nandatio]

thanks for this video it's great. A little trick though, to generate a consistent character of different ages, just do the same prompt by just changing the age of the person (10 years old, 20 years old, 30...) by putting a "style ref" image of the person at an average age and keeping the same seed. it works :)

[@maxwell-cole]

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[@billywhitaker6658]

This is precisely what I was looking 💪🏼 thanks for the hard work.

[@glibatree]

I tried to put in all the answers to some of the hardest problems in Midjourney.. I think the video should really drill down into those essentials.

[@laughingoutloud3713]

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[@jimphillips6379]

This is the information I've been waiting for. Although I am achieving consistent character in my work, it has felt like a highly accidental process. Thank you! x1000!🙃

[@Author_SoftwareDesigner]

Wow these techniques / workflows are absolutely incredible. Thanks Glibatree

[@EmilyNilsen]

Thank you for the tutorial and GPT! Very helpful, you're a gem.

[@adarwinterdror7245]

That was such a wonderful video. I am by no means a MJ novice, and I work with it a lot, but you gave some new tips and creative ways to get good results I have never considered. Good job. Btw, I sometime use objects as CREF too to get similiar-ish objects in different images.

[@mydogisgucci]

Wow. Just wow. I appreciate your hard work and can’t thank you enough for the value you provided in this video. 👊🏻

[@EliudLamboy]

Bro! You just saved my life! I was looking into all these complex comfyui workflow, and you came in and destroyed it 😂😂😂

[@mrxatissimo3937]

Clear instructions, check! GPT add on that works wonders, check! Wonderful results from following very simple instructions, check! Subed, liked and saved... triple check!!! Please keep up this wonderful work!

[@silversurfer4195]

Indeed a wonderful video. You have been publishing parts of it in previous ones, but this is a masterclass in and of itself. Great!!!

[@suzannecarter445]

You are definitely the MJ maven on YT - just the person I've been looking for. Many thanks!

[@youwang9156]

damn, you just save my life, this is probably the BEST video that I have seen for midjourney, so so useful, thank you so so much, you deserve millions subscribers!!!

[@nabeelashrafi1008]

best video for character consistency

[@murraymorison3924]

Brilliant teaching

[@Aeye_Future]

super cool! Thank you for the deep details.

[@alexandrevcparaiso]

That video is simply awesome! Thank you!

[@glibatree]

Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed!!

[@ManzilMonabber]

This was the best Midjourney tutorial ever!

[@markwalker5948]

you are a fantastic fella to follow. thank you for this; it's worth it's weight in gold!

[@jisukseo-m7f]

It was a very good midjourney course that I can apply in my work, thank you.😁

[@mmnovelbox8336]

very valuable content. Thank you for sharing.. I want to see more.

[@jonday1916]

Thank you for this! I'm going to create characters using your info.

[@annmarytom6696]

OMG what an amazing video! Thank you so so so much for this

[@Cimarb]

Wow. I took a few month break from midjourney and it is crazy how much it looks like they improved the editor…

[@glibatree]

Yeah, you truly get a sense of control over the composition! It's kind of amazing how big a difference literally being able to crop things out of your generations make.

[@Cimarb]

@@glibatree "back in the day" when I was a monthly sub, I had to pan left, then pan square, pan up, square, ad infinitum until I got the right proportions, lol. This looks so free-flowing and wonderful in comparison, and the masking looks much much better too.

[@nadk666]

This was brilliant, thanks a lot & you sir are amazing!

[@tridenttrikes2900]

yor explanation is fantastic! For me, it’s a bit challenging since I don’t live in America or England, and English is my second language. Currently, I’m working on a musical and creating the storyboard using photos, so there’s a lot for me to learn. I’m actually a musician by trade, so I really appreciate your help-thank you!

[@dasberlinlex]

That was super helpful. Thank you. ( Subscribed)

[@glibatree]

Thanks so much! Glad to hear you're appreciating the info!!

[@TheTamsinbloom]

amazing great job. thank you for your hard work

[@glibatree]

My pleasure, glad you appreciate these videos!

[@siegeperilous9371]

Impressive. Thanks for sharing your workflows!

[@glibatree]

Thanks man! Hope you're able to utilize some of it in your own workflows!

[@NewMarshallPlan]

Awesome and you have my sub!

[@glibatree]

Very kind, thank you!!

[@yatsuman]

Fantastic video! Thank you very much for sharing your know how! 🙏

[@glibatree]

Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed!

[@quizinator75]

Super helpful stuff thanks!

[@glibatree]

Thanks for watching!

[@liodub1]

boss level - thanks a lot man!!!!

[@jaredtyler7842]

Woof going to have to watch that again.

[@IlTao]

you are awsome, thanks, you got a new subscriber :)

[@armondtanz]

This guy got more hacks than an 80s slasher film.

[@Sochi-app]

Thank you for this. It’s really helpful

[@glibatree]

Thank YOU for watching :D I am glad you enjoyed

[@KarenArdinger]

Awesome! Thanks so much!

[@Rathgars-Rad-Rascals]

Such great work, Thanx Mang!

[@glibatree]

Much appreciated! Glad you enjoyed it

[@heartshinemusic]

Great video, but still unpredictable results most of the time. I know Midjourney is working on some kind of mysterious "storytelling" feature, but I think it would really help if they would create a POSE REF feature. To create a pose from scratch or directly copy it from another image.

[@cipheredhistories]

i really appreciate the knowledge you sharwed with us today. Very helpful and easy to follow. Also thanks for the GPT link. tried making my own but isn't as detailed and specific as yours.

[@glibatree]

Awesome to hear it's working for you! The prompt framework, is hugely undervalued I think - and it can really level up people's creations

[@jagsmith252]

Great work I tried the GPT link but only giving me five panels and the characters are inconsistent. Some of them even put in a female even though I asked for a male

[@iamlove7]

Thank you. That's great

[@crossnoir1]

So you have an amazing channel. I've learned so much. Thank you. Can you do a video specifically about making exact matching scenes. You touched on it here but I can't follow it like I need to. I really appreciate your work and you time and effort here.

[@arnoldasmureika]

Thanks, helpful!

[@armondtanz]

Shocking over year later theres no control net, or outline identify ??? Leonardo, openart ai, fooocus, stable diff... all implemented these 12 months ago. Still gonna be jumping thru hoops in 2025 😢

[@alihancaglar74]

Legend!

[@spiritualrealm555]

Incredibly useful ❤thank you for sharing this. I subscribed to your channel. Will definitely try out all your methods and learn. However, could you please make a slightly detailed video on generating a character at different ages with precision. That bit went a little fast or maybe I'm just too slow 😅 Thanks in advance if you decide to make a tutorial on that bit. ✨ Also how to show a real life character at different ages? Any tips would be much appreciated.

[@glibatree]

Glad to hear it's connecting for you, and that's definitely something I can add to the pipeline.

[@minskmade]

greeeat video...learned a ton... ..

[@dannydavis665]

Thanks! great video. make more of these on different topics!

[@glibatree]

Wow you're so kind!! I'll do my best to satisfy you with content haha!

[@LewisDecodesAI]

Kind off, if you generate the character's in one image on a grid depicting all the scenes you can. You can cut them out, then generate the backgrounds aeoeratly, then out them on top of the scenes. A lot of editing but you can do it. I use a method, you can see in some of my videos. The lady and the man do change in one or two scenes but across them all I did OK I think. 👍

[@trinyodsoontorn3408]

Thank you😊

[@automatticsystems]

This is incredible. Is there a way to leverage take advantage of this with the midjourney API or only available in the platform? Thanks!

[@DanielaTodorova-l7g]

hello, can you please show us more details about how exactly you use midjourney alpha editor, for photo manipulation (how you change one face in the image with another), how changing the angels...ect

[@johndev2212]

Brilliant 🙂

[@BlackEyeMedia70]

Super. Thanx

[@magicalmysteriesohmy6833]

This is an amazing video! 🥰😊It helped me create the characters from my books better than ever before. One question. How do you prompt to get the different angles in the art gallery shots? I can’t get my head around it, and it looks great!

[@glibatree]

That's a great question! I essentially got the picture of the painting I like and asked for something along the lines of: A photo of the same painting displayed twice - on on each side of the corner of a wall. I think I repeated a few times, once the corner was at the angle I like I would go back to the editor and regenerate the paintings until they matched. By the end I think I had described the contents of the painting of the wall itself and that got me there.

[@magicalmysteriesohmy6833]

@@glibatree thanks! I’ll give that a try.

[@James_m7]

Great work! How did you get that photoshop background to match with those images?

[@kngemeral]

great video

[@glibatree]

Thanks!

[@danihaile]

Amazing video, packed with solid insights. Subscribed! I would have loved to buy you a coffee :) ... maybe should include a link / patrion. Cheers!!!

[@jacobywaynes]

Nice info, hopefully Midjourney uses Flux or something we can train with soon

[@thewebstylist]

Fantastic tips and vid! I have a client who needs me to recreate her for talking on stage realistic images of her life coaching but having issues finding rt program and steps for this based on a dozen of her headshots and photos I have for reference

[@glibatree]

Hope this ends up helping now, or for another future project! Midjourney might not be perfect if you're shooting for a true match- you might do better with DreamBooth or other fine-tuning approaches for a SD model. Good luck with your client, it sounds like a cool project 😃

[@robertmartens7839]

This is the bare minimum for any AI movie. Waiting

[@glibatree]

Part of what inspired me to make this video it seemed like important background for anyone using Midjourey to create starter frames for any longform AI video project

[@klender_nothing2lose]

Great video and in-depth tutorial! New subscriber... Thx. Do you have a video that teaches how to assign a NAME to your character in the new 6.1 Web interface?

[@glibatree]

Unfortunately you can save characters you've generated in folders with names, but on the site there is not currently a way to refer them by name in a prompt and have crefs come too

[@bcarse1]

Incredible video, tips and insights. I've been struggling with multiple consistent characters and have tried countless approaches. Your process mnakes more sense than any of the others. Can't wait to give it a try tonight. Bravo!

[@glibatree]

I am so glad you appreciate this one- there's a lot to cover in order to make it all click. I'm glad to hear you feel like it helped connect things for you. Good luck generating 😃

[@SteelLighter]

how the frick are you so good at it?

[@Torranium]

is it possible to use a real photo. For example, lets say we have a foto of a woman in a costume. Can i use midjourney to make an image series with her located in, lets say a law firm ? With her at a desk, or talking with her collegues.. ?

[@johnhinkle1411]

So I tried these methods extensively, but still could not get a cohesive character. 1. When using the grid method of pasting 5 of the same images of the same character reference, it really doesn't work any better than using 1 character reference. Even when playing with --cw values, some of the images rendered look like the character while others do not. It always seems to come down to messing with the weights (cw, iw, sw) to get what you want. 2. I also tried getting multiple angles of the character using your Editor method, but I swear....the editor renders come out as pure garbage...lol. I clearly give it the SAME prompts you outline in the video (multiple angles, front and side view, etc) and over half the time, it wont even render a character, just background. I have a love hate relationship with MJ editor as it seems it doesn't really work that well for me. 2. Now here's the part that I was REALLY EXCITED about. Rendering a template image, then using the editor and character prompt/images to essentially face swap your character on the scene. I got horrible results. It seems the Editor will paste on a face that looks really "photoshopped". It doesn't look good at all and doesn't look like my reference prompt or image. I've tried multiple variations, with multiple prompts, with no success at all. Almost all the images rendered by Editor look really bad when it comes to characters.

[@glibatree]

It sounds to me that you're defining what you want really well for midjourney, but 1 CPU minute isn't enough for it to actually pull it off. These are all very common issues, ESPECIALLY when you're generating your character within the image at a distance. As in, if the characters face doesn't take up a pretty high portion of the image- often the details can get lost. But it can also happen if there's a lot going on for your character pose-wise or the cref and the prompts don't really match. As far as advice, I would suggest beginning with simpler and more close-up ideas until you have a good feel for what results are beyond Midjourney in it's current state. Not everything is going to be possible in a single step. But if you zoom out slowly with several generations, making sure to generate the details you care most about first, I bet you can get pretty close to your ideas.

[@johnhinkle1411]

@@glibatree Thanks. All Im saying is I tried out your setups several times with a lot of different variables and they just didn't seem to be consistent and work that well. I had better luck just playing around with weights. I highly recommend anyone who doesn't want to deal with the inconsistent nature of MJ when it comes to faces, they try FaceFusion. Works very well and you're not spending an hour on each character for mediocre results.

[@Thehouseoftatum]

Great video still don’t understand how you made the character age

[@ItsMeHannes]

Insane mate.Can you tell me how to get access to the midjourney alpha>? I only have the discord version...

[@glibatree]

Everyone has access to the alpha version now :) Just go to alpha.midjourney.com/ and sign into your midjourney account

[@Paul-l2y4o]

Seen from multiple angle, front and side view...its sometimes not working like sometimes the object appears taller. you know a fix?:)

[@viniciuscunha5845]

Why I cannot change the image references in the editor from Midjourney webapp? WHat am I doing wrong?

[@Wolgan]

Dziękujemy.

[@glibatree]

You're very kind thank you! Jesteś bardzo miły, dziękuję!

[@Wolgan]

@@glibatree You make my job easier. I thank you!

[@hustleheartfilms5151]

What is the snipping tool for chrome?

[@rakeshzharotia]

Thanks for your video brother--- handsome knowledge you have....but I think its better if consistency of surrounding and character should get introduced in the technology itself ....because at present it is a very hard working and trial error methodology we are left with ...and rest because most of the platform are paid so if we are allowed 100 images in our package only 20 fits the bill

[@glibatree]

That's a fair point, I like experimenting and seeing what's possible with what we have but- something like cref and bref (for background reference) could be really useful to a lot of people.

[@rakeshzharotia]

@@glibatree yes definitely

[@Grandeai]

❤

[@Roximoe]

Is anyone else still not getting consistent characters

[@brainstormyyyy]

Hey, please help me out. when I headed over to purchase the monthly standard plan of mid journey ..it showed that they does not allow the editor option on uploaded images on monthly plans. for editor option I have to purchase yearly plan . which is 288$ at once for the standard plan. this is heart breaking. is it true ? if I can't access the editor option, it will be a huge loss from creating great images . please reply

[@glibatree]

The editor option I showed in this video is available to all midjourney subscribers. The Edit/Retexture feature for uploaded files is a new (separate) feature, and is currently in an early testing status. Only users who have generated more than 10,000 images, been a subscriber for the past year, or are currently paying for a yearly membership-- So if your talking about that feature, unfortunately yes you're right... But the requirements are intentionally too high right now while it's being tested. I bet you'll get access in a couple weeks even if you don't buy anything else.

[@brainstormyyyy]

@@glibatree hey ..thank you so much for replying . Ohh .. it is a different feature . Thats a bit of relief . I was worried about the edit feature which helps in generating the consistent images . As in when you upload one image of a movie star and get a smiliar AI version of that in different scenarios with consistent facial features. That happens in an edit feature . So i thought maybe it's that edit feature which has been reserved to only annual members

[@independentcreative]

How do we get to you Glibatree Consistent Character Assistant

[@glibatree]

First link in the description, within ChatGPT for free. Also: chatgpt.com/g/g-hfOosvOH7-glibatree-consistent-character-assistant

[@justvideosstudiokolkata740]

super

[@glibatree]

Thanks!

[@FluxNomad678]

Can this be applied to self pictures using CREF?

[@glibatree]

Midjourney devs' official answer is no. They try to warp photo-real images of people to not match - but if you standardize your inputs and do what is talked about in this video regarding a prompt framework that works well - I find it pretty possible. Here's the video from when I did it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaikqIqgeLeUebs

[@Roximoe]

not sure what i'm doing wrong i have great reference images but the generations look nothing like them i'm clicking the little icon to use them as image refs but yours came out identical mine are weak

[@Roximoe]

i'll check out the livestream in your description xo

[@glibatree]

@@Roximoe It could be that you need the "person icon" for character references (rather than image reference) if you want it to look like the same person.

[@Roximoe]

@@glibatree oh yeah that's what I meant I'm using the little person icon but it's blatantly a different face are there any other factors effecting it?

[@raztube90]

I use consistent character in replicate

[@Benjaofficial]

I don't understand - when you type in the prompt "leah skydiving", how does midjourney know that "leah" is referring to that character?

[@glibatree]

I included the cref images I created for her. Just faster to type a name then describe a woman with her traits

[@Benjaofficial]

@@glibatree No I understand you included the cref images. But how does midjourney know you are referring to the women when you just say "Leah"? Is that some kind of variable you set somewhere?

[@StarSirius-ik3qo]

do you need to be in discord to make these edits?

[@glibatree]

You can be in discord, but I find it's actually even easier if you're on the Website/Alpha

[@Roximoe]

Midjounrey isnt using the character reference properly for me have you ran into this issue before?

[@glibatree]

Yeah, CREF works a certain way, but it definitely isn't perfect. This video your commenting on is very much understanding it's quirks and learning to navigate them - so if you integrate some of these ideas - hopefully you'll see improvement.

[@daina3628]

Try putting as a --cref a photo of a guy AND a photo of a wolf. The result will surprise you.

[@chrisheath786]

Great info but the background music is distracting and unnecesarry

[@arealknowitall]

you are offering valuable information and from what I can tell are quite knowledgable but the music is competing with you due to poorly being mixed. I'm downloading your video and stripping the music away in order to better hear what you're saying.

[@rogeliocorral1472]

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[@glibatree]

Thanks for the feedback, truly. I'm still learning to get better at the music aspect of exciting. I think it can do a lot for the energy and pace of the video - but it's definitely a balancing act 😆

[@ZenborgX]

@@glibatree √√√ Very helpful content, like many of your videos - really appreciate! Just a note re music - personally, I hate background music - it reminds me of bland travelogues / homogenous cooking videos, and distracts from the important detailed info - just imo!... but that could be cos I'm a composer/musician 😊 Keep up the great work!

[@LouisGedo]

👋 hi

[@glibatree]

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[@user-tu9ox4hj9g]

Great way to show your face more than showcasing the step by step procedure 😮‍💨

[@listenhere2006]

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[@KingZero69]

this guy has a face like a THUMB…. 😂