Runway: Generate custom character poses using reference images
Runway
Demo summary
A step-by-step walkthrough of adding text and image reference nodes in Runway to apply a specific pose from a reference image to a generated character.
Step-by-step
- Drag your main character reference image onto an empty part of the canvas to create a new image reference node
- Right click on the canvas and add a text node, another image upload node, and an image generation node
- Connect the text node to the prompt input
- Connect the main character reference node to the image 1 input
- Connect the empty image node to the image 2 input
- Upload a pose reference image to the second image node
- Enter a prompt specifying to show the character from image 1 in the pose from image 2
Tips
- Explicitly state in the prompt to keep the body proportions from image one the same to maintain character consistency
Highlights
“great way to get your character looking exactly how you want”
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