The thing that keeps a recurring character on-model isn't a longer text prompt — it's a real reference photo the image generator actually looks at.
Aug 28, 2026 · 5 min read · Mechanics

Every recurring face gets a real reference photo
You, any named character, and any recurring creature or object each get one actual generated reference image — not just a text description — the moment they're introduced.
That photo gets reused, not redescribed
Every later scene that needs that character feeds its actual reference photo into the image generator alongside the scene prompt, so the model has something concrete to match instead of reinterpreting a description from scratch each time.
A shared reference can still be scoped to one scene
If several characters share one reference image (a cast photo, a group shot), the planner can mark exactly which of them belong in a given scene, so the others don't leak in when they shouldn't be there.
Drift usually means a scene skipped its reference
When a recurring character's design visibly changes between scenes, it's almost always because that scene's plan didn't actually carry the reference forward — not a random reinterpretation of an identical instruction.
In a single 30 Days video, references are generated once and reused across every scene in that one story — you'll never see yourself change outfits mid-video for no reason. In Series mode, the same idea extends across episodes: a companion you introduced in episode one is still the same reference in episode six, weeks of story later.
If a character does genuinely change — an outfit upgrade, an evolution, a scar from a fight — that's treated as a real story beat with its own moment on screen, not something that quietly happens between two unrelated scenes.
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