Character Consistency

"The problem that we have most often with DOT is that the eyes aren't the right shape and don't appear like real lights shining through. That's the quality that we need to get."

"It's like it's a real illuminated light shining through the surface that's like this pearlescent nacre surface"

"Also some sense that she's like floating in water in the scenes"

"DOT's face should never be straight on, in perfect alignment with the horizon. She should be kind of floating round and tilted"

"She's a three-dimensional sphere, so we need to bring that into her character reference and build up the right prompts and reference images"

"Same with OLLI: he needs to look really immersed and like he is in flow with the water around him"

"The current character references are kind of more static and rigid, but we need more dynamism in both of the characters"

"He has this really intentional hand-detailed gold stipple-dot style around his head and on his arms"

"He has just a few little gold dots in between his eyes"

"His irises should have this gold foil effect"

"His pupils and his eyes have this clear kind of sheen, and his pupils have this natural light glimmer"

"He has just a subtle pink kind of blush on his cheeks"

D1: "The lights kind of look like they're reflecting on the surface of her shell, her outer casing. They should be like shining through it. On the tilted Dot version she looks like she's got like a texture effect on some kind of texture effect on her surface. She should be a smooth pearlescent."

D2: "On the deep tilts concept there's like a bright light shining through her body in the middle, we need to remove that."

D3 (BEST): "D3 In Motion, that one is the best. She's got the reflective surface, that looks cool. Maybe we can make it a little less reflective, like almost like a real pearl, so like not as shiny."

D4: "D4 close up, the Pearl Dot surface is black in this. We need it to be pearlescent like a real pearl and the light again is like reflecting on the surface, it's not shining through. We need to shine through."

D5: "The deep water, it looks close. I think the surface is a little too dark basically based off the lighting of the scene."

D6: "The with Ollie scene, the Ollie character should be our actual Ollie character. We need to do an illustrated Ollie and a 3D Ollie. None of the Ollies are quite what we're looking for."

"They don't look like they're different concepts from the 3D ones, they look pretty much the same and they're having some artifacts like textures on the surface of Dot and Dot being the wrong color."

"Dot's eyes being wrong in the D4 close-up for the illustrated one, and the size proportion with Ollie in both of the dot concepts is wrong. Dot is too big."

"I don't know why we have like 3D plus illustrated. We have an illustrated concept that should be used for the illustrated version. We shouldn't be doing like 3D plus illustrated."

"For the 3D version of Ollie he shouldn't have ears. We don't want him to have ears. He always needs a mouth. O3 is missing a mouth."

"His arms are too long."

"I think he should be in water like blue water in all of these, like the O1."

"They're all looking like a little bit almost like cartoony and like computer generated and not like hand created artwork in like a 3D like realistic photograph scene."

"O1 is close but it still has like a computer generated effect and the arms are too long."

"I think maybe like his mouth needs to be like a little bit lower from his eyes."

"The O4, O5, O6, O2, O3 these concepts don't really work."

"None of these concepts look right. They should be using that illustrated concept. It's called Ollie Illustrated, it's on the character reference page."

"Those all need to be redone as well and that too needs to look like realistic illustration. Not like computer generated."

"We need to remove any prompting about like cartoon or children's book or children's illustration. We just need it to be like hand painted artwork."