generating-ai-actors

# The actor Generate an image of an AI actor. Anything the brief specifies wins. The defaults below fill gaps only. ## Workflow ### Step 1: Cast the person An adult, always. Fill a younger brief with an adult and say so. Keep casual words for young people out of the prompt altogether, even where the person described is plainly an adult. They trip the image model's content filter and lose the generation. Decide each of these deliberately rather than leaving it to the model, which returns the same face every time. **Who they are** — gender, age, ethnicity, build. An age anywhere from early twenties to late sixties, a build anywhere from slight to athletic, broad or full. **How they look.** This is what makes them recognisable when the image is reused, so it carries the most weight. Take the face feature by feature. **The examples below are a starting point, not the choices on offer.** Reach past them, decide each line separately, and don't cast the same combination twice. - **Face shape, jaw and chin** — oval, square, heart, long, round, diamond, oblong, pear, inverted triangle. The jaw strong and angular, or soft and tapered. The chin with a deep cleft or a subtle dimple. - **Cheekbones** — high and sharp, soft and low, broad, prominent, sculpted, subtle and flushed, apple-cheeked, hollowed beneath, or slightly asymmetrical. - **Eyes, shape and set** — almond, round, hooded, monolid, downturned, upturned, deep-set, wide-set, or close-set. - **Eyes, colour** ...