character-model-sheet

Character Model Sheet

A character model sheet is a single generated image that shows a character's complete design at once — not one pose, but a full-body turnaround (front, 3/4, side, back), a head & detail close-up sheet, a color palette, and a short overview block naming the character, its role, and its personality. It's the format riggers, illustrators, and game/animation studios use to lock a character's design before it's animated, modeled, or drawn by a second artist — the point is consistency across angles, not a single nice pose.

This is a sibling to brand-identity-sheet (same two-artifact workflow, same Ideogram generation pattern) but for characters instead of brand systems, and a sibling to logo-prompting's "single mark" discipline scaled up to "single character, many views."

The two artifacts this skill produces

1. A generation prompt — a tight descriptive paragraph, Ideogram-legible, that produces the sheet in one shot.
2. A compositional deconstruction — a structured JSON breakdown of the resulting image (or of a reference image the user supplies) with a high_level_description and an elements array of {type, bbox, desc} / {type: "text", bbox, text, desc} entries. This is what makes the sheet reusable: another agent (an animator, a modeler, a second illustrator) can read the bbox spec and know exactly which panel is the front view, which is the face close-up, which is the color swatch bar, without re-looking at the image. See references/composition-spec-format.md for the full schema — it's the same schema brand-identity-sheet uses, unmodified, because the annotation problem (precisely locating panels/text in a multi-panel design sheet) is identical regardless of subject.

Always produce both. The paragraph prompt is what you feed the image model; the compositional deconstruction is what you save back to the vault so the sheet's structure survives past the single image (feeding animation, modeling, or a second illustrator's work later).