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Creature Board

A needle-felted creature — locks fiber texture, expressions and a pose library.

Creature Board example — Huckle, a needle-felted creature, in a multi-panel stop-motion reference sheet

Example board generated from a single photo · subject: Huckle

BRIEFHERO + METADATAPANELSSTYLE

Lock a needle-felted creature on-model — fiber texture, a 6-face expression set, pose library and woodland lighting moods. Attach one clean photo of your subject, paste the prompt into GPT Image 2, and it fills in the metadata and palette from your image — then feed the finished board back as a reference so the subject never drifts.

Creature Board · needle-felted creature
[BRIEF] Create a single high-resolution, densely packed creature reference sheet titled "CREATURE BOARD" using the attached photo of the needle-felted creature as the single source of truth for form, color, fiber texture, proportions and expression. The same felt creature must appear in every panel — same wool, same eyes, same markings, same fluff. All on-image labels in ENGLISH. Editorial stop-motion creature-design board layout with a dark near-black background, thin yellow neon accent light, faint film-grain overlay, and animation-studio / creature-design UI. Hero shot, metadata, expression set and detail studies can shift into different balanced arrangements. Adapts cleanly to different aspect ratios.
[HERO + METADATA] Hero shot of the full felt creature in signature alert pose, with a detailed metadata block: CREATURE NAME · SPECIES (fictional) · FILM (fictional) · ROLE · SIZE (cm) MATERIAL: needle-felted wool roving, glass-bead eyes, embroidered details HABITAT: (1 line) · PERSONALITY: (3-4 keywords) SOUND / VOCALIZATION: (1 line) · SIGNATURE MOVEMENT: (1 line) PRODUCTION USE: (hero / background / hero close-ups)
[PANELS] PANEL 01 — VIEWS (5 full-body angles): FRONT · 3/4 LEFT · SIDE · BACK · TOP-DOWN. PANEL 02 — EXPRESSIONS (6 head studies): ALERT · CURIOUS · PLAYFUL · SCARED · SLEEPING · GROWLING. PANEL 03 — DETAIL MACROS (4): WOOL FIBER TEXTURE · GLASS-BEAD EYE · STITCHED PAW · EMBROIDERED MARKINGS. PANEL 04 — POSE LIBRARY (5 action poses): SITTING · POUNCING · SNIFFING · CURLED ASLEEP · RUNNING. PANEL 05 — LIGHTING / MOOD (4 same-pose shots): WOODLAND DAYLIGHT · TWILIGHT BLUE · GOLDEN FOREST RAY · MOONLIT BACKLIT. PANEL 06 — FIBER COLOR PALETTE: 6 swatches with HEX codes pulled from the wool roving and markings.
[STYLE] Bottom caption: "Use this felt creature board as a visual reference for consistent depiction across all generations." Bottom-right tags: STYLE · Stop-Motion · Needle-Felt · Handmade. Style: tactile stop-motion needle-felt aesthetic — real wool roving with visible fluffy fibers, soft halo of stray strands, glass-bead eye sheen, embroidered details, miniature studio photography. Laika handmade quality. NOT digital CG, NOT 3D render, NOT 2D illustration. Consistent felt creature across every single panel. 8K, fine film grain.
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