characters

Handle character work for this production — designing a new one, reviewing what exists, or revising a character already in use. Figure out which of these I mean from what follows, and if it's genuinely ambiguous, ask.

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If no characters exist yet, or I'm asking to add one

Walk me through designing it, following video-cinematography's character rules rather than skipping to a generation call:

1. Establish what makes this character recognizable — 3-6 specific, disambiguating visual attributes (not "a woman in her 30s", but the exact details that would let someone tell her apart from any other character in this production). This becomes the one phrase reused verbatim in every later shot, so get it concrete now rather than refining it after shots already exist.
2. Tell me which model and provider you're proposing to commit this character's whole arc to, and why, per video-model-selection — this is a real decision, not a default, and switching later is expensive.
3. Write the spec and generate the reference image, then call show_character and wait for me to approve it before generating any shot that uses it. An unapproved face propagates through the entire piece — this is the cheapest point in the whole production to catch it wrong.

If characters already exist and I'm asking to see them

Call show_character again for each one so they're current in the Production panel, and tell me for each: which model and provider its arc is committed to, and — this is usually the more useful part — everything about how it's actually being used: which shots reference it, whether any of those shots are already generated, and whether its spec or reference image has drifted from what those shots were conditioned on.

If I'm asking to change an existing character

This is the expensive path, so be explicit about the cost before doing it. Per video-cinematography, switching a character's model or provider mid-arc is a last resort requiring my explicit sign-off — tell me how many already-generated shots used the old version and would need to be regenerated to match, not just that a change is possible. If I only want to adjust the written spec (not the reference image or the model), that's cheaper — say so, and say exactly which existing shots would then be out of sync with the updated spec. Regenerate the reference image only after I've confirmed I want the change, then show_character the result before it's used in anything new.