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Pose Board

Any character you'll animate — locks poses, action, expressions and angles for video (photoreal).

Pose Board example — Boss Corgi, a tweed-suited corgi character, in a multi-panel pose reference sheet

Example board generated from a single photo · subject: Boss Corgi

BRIEFHERO + METADATAPANELSSTYLE

Turn one photo of a character into an animation-ready pose & expression sheet — every angle, pose and face, locked photoreal. 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.

Pose Board · any character
[BRIEF] Create a single high-resolution, densely packed character pose reference sheet titled "POSE BOARD" using the attached photo of the character as the single source of truth for face, hair, body proportions and outfit. The character must be identical across every panel — same person, same age, same outfit. All on-image labels in ENGLISH. Editorial animation-reference layout with a dark near-black background, thin yellow neon accent light, faint film-grain overlay, and studio reference UI. The composition should feel organized but not rigidly fixed: allow the hero standing figure, metadata, pose studies, expression studies, and supporting panels to shift position naturally. Keep the overall design adaptable to multiple aspect ratios rather than relying on a fixed horizontal arrangement.
[HERO + METADATA] Include a large full-body hero standing shot, clean and readable, with a detailed metadata block: NAME · AGE · BUILD · HEIGHT OUTFIT: (describe the exact clothing from the attached photo) POSE LANGUAGE: (confident / relaxed / aggressive / playful) CENTER OF GRAVITY · DOMINANT HAND PURPOSE: animation and video-generation reference.
[PANELS] Also include five content groupings: PANEL 01 — BASIC POSES (5 full-body shots, identical outfit and lighting): STAND · SIT · WALK · RUN · JUMP. PANEL 02 — ACTION POSES (5 dynamic full-body shots): FIGHT STANCE · THROW · DODGE · CLIMB · LAND. PANEL 03 — EXPRESSIONS (5 tight headshots, same lighting): NEUTRAL · LAUGH · ANGRY · SAD · SURPRISED. PANEL 04 — ANGLE COVERAGE (4 standing neutral portraits): FRONT · 3/4 · SIDE · BACK. PANEL 05 — COLOR PALETTE: 6 swatches with HEX codes from outfit + skin tones.
[STYLE] Bottom caption: "Use this pose sheet as a visual reference for consistent animation of the character across all generations." Bottom-right tags: STYLE · Animation Ready · Realistic · Cinematic. Style: photorealistic, no illustration. Consistent character across every panel. 8K, fine grain, cinematic color grading.
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