Midjourney Finally Does Consistent Characters. Let's Play!
Intro to the new --cref parameter and how to use it.
Happy Thursday, creature caricaturists,
The long-awaited “consistent characters” feature has come to Midjourney.
Here’s why that’s a big deal: As good as text-to-image models have gotten, they often struggle to reliably reproduce the same character in different settings.
There are many situations where keeping a character consistent over multiple images might be important. For instance:
Photoshoots: You want the same person in the same outfit standing in different poses in different locations.
Visual storytelling: Comics and picture books need repeatable characters.
Virtual try-ons: You might want the same model showcasing different outfits.
To be fair, it’s long been possible to train a model like Stable Diffusion on a specific character or person via Dreambooth or similar tools. But this often required a lot of time, dozens of reference images, and a seriously powerful computer.
Alternatively, you could get semi-consistent characters in Midjourney by using image prompts. However, the origin…