I'm putting out a new YouTube video every day (or trying to 😅), and I make the characters with Kling 4 in ShortPulse. Mrs. Henderson was in yesterday's video. Could she come back today and still look like herself? She did. Same condo, same sun hat, same dead AC. This time she skips Google and yells at ChatGPT like it's a walkie-talkie. How I did it: 🧑‍🎨 Character sheets, not starting images. I make every shot of her from her character sheet. That's what keeps her looking like the same person from video to video, and in the thumbnail too. 🎬 AI B-roll for a data video. This one is a real test (ChatGPT vs Google in 10 cities), so it's full of numbers. Kling clips break that up: a robot reading the internet, a closed shop at midnight, a guy sipping hot cocoa in the desert. Something new on screen every few seconds. 🤖 My AI cohost is in it too. Tally's lines are ShortPulse clips, with her own voice. What I learned: - A recurring character saves you a ton of time. The audience already knows her, so you skip the setup. - Plan every clip in the script first. You always know exactly what to make. - Short clips win. A few seconds each is plenty. Watch it here 👉 https://youtu.be/HYqRLFm578k Anyone else bringing characters back across videos? How are you keeping them consistent? 👇

Day 3 of my one-video-a-day challenge: "I Rated the 5 Worst Local Business Websites I've Seen This Year." The big change this time is Tally, my AI cohost. 😬 Before: in my last videos, Tally looked AI. Glossy skin, perfect lighting, model poses. So I hid her in a little bubble in the corner and hoped nobody looked too closely. ✨ Now: I rebuilt her look in ShortPulse, and she's full screen, delivering her own lines. She looks like a real person. Almost too real. 😅 How I made her more realistic: - I switched to the Digicam Photorealism style with Nano Banana 2. It looks like a real phone photo, not a magazine cover. - I wrote prompts like a casual phone snapshot: plain room light, a little messy hair, small imperfections, caught mid-moment instead of posing. 👵 Mrs. Henderson is back too, and she got promoted. She's the judge of Website Court now. What I learned: - "Ultra photorealistic" prompts look MORE fake. Imperfect looks real. - If your character looks too AI, don't hide her. Fix her. Watch it here 👉 https://youtu.be/QLKbuRe_vb8 Is your AI character still hiding in a bubble? 👇

Video 4 just went up. Every character in it came out of ShortPulse. I'm only the host on green screen. Here's how I used it 👇 👵 SAME CHARACTERS, VIDEO TO VIDEO Mrs. Henderson and Gary were in Video 3, so they had to look exactly the same in Video 4. I put their Video 3 reference image in @asset1 for every shot and added "keep her face identical" to every prompt. Same lady, same face, new story. 🎬 THE PROMPT RECIPE Every clip used the same structure: 1. Camera + lens ("shot on ARRI Alexa, 35mm lens") and the lighting 2. The character, from @asset1, with what they're wearing today 3. The setting, in detail 4. ONE shot with timing (0-10s), one continuous take, static camera 5. The same negative prompt every time: cartoon, CGI, plastic skin, text, captions, watermark, extra fingers... That consistency is what makes every clip feel like one show. 🚫 NO TEXT FROM THE AI I never asked Kling for readable text. No door labels, no phone screens, no signs. AI text tends to come out garbled. All the labels, numbers and screens got added in the edit, so they're always right. 💡 720 IS FINE Most clips were 720. I only splurged on 1080 for the opening shot, since it's the first thing people see. That saved a bunch of credits. 🖼️ THUMBNAILS IN IMAGE MODE My first thumbnails were generic (big stat + faces). So I went with a ridiculous story instead. I used Image mode with GPT Image 2.5 and my own "Craig" character: 💀 Mrs. Henderson as a skeleton in her lawn chair, phone still "Searching..." 📌 A MISSING poster for a plumber: "Last seen: page 6 of Google" 🚪 Mrs. Henderson flattened by a giant Google door I'm testing all 3 with YouTube's Test & Compare. Here's the video 👇 [https://youtu.be/A3gTz2GCc_E] What's your trick for keeping characters consistent?

I wanted to create three different versions of myself in the same scene, each with her own look and personality, while trying to keep the characters and environment consistent. There are definitely some glitches 😂, but I learned a LOT putting this together, especially about character consistency, movement, continuity, and how much planning goes into even a short video. Still learning, but I had a lot of fun with this one! Would love any feedback or tips on getting even more natural, real-life-looking results next time. ❤️ Oh! PS. That's a coffee house here were I live called Tamper. I took some photos of it and had AI create the environment for my Avatara. It's not exact, but it's pretty close! I love the idea of placing Avatars inside real spaces.

I made a 15-minute YouTube video with Kling 4 through Shortpulse, and I didn't use a single starting image. 🎬 Here's the whole workflow: 1️⃣ Character sheets. I had Shortpulse generate a character sheet for every character: Gary the plumber, Mrs. Henderson with the flooded kitchen, the Pastor, the secret agents, and my AI cohost Tally. 2️⃣ Environment sheets. Then I generated environment sheets for every location: the funeral, the kitchen, the interrogation room, and the rest. 3️⃣ That's it. Those sheets were the only things I fed in for the entire video. No starting images and no first frames. Every clip came from the character and environment sheets. Why Kling 4? I wanted to test it, so the whole video is Kling 4. This was the real-world test: 15 minutes, a dozen-ish scenes and recurring characters. What I learned: - Build your sheets first. Once the characters and places are locked in, every scene gets easier. - Write the story before you generate anything. Every clip should have a job. - Never leave AI clips in silence. Sound effects and music sell the scene. And yes, my AI cohost is one of the characters. What she did behind the scenes is a story for another post. 👀 Watch it here 👉 https://youtu.be/XuVYeVkHGp0 Anyone else building with character sheets? What's your trick for keeping characters consistent? 👇