Character Image Direction

Goal

Create high-impact base character images for a mature romance dating game. Each image should communicate the character's age, personality, body type, fashion sense, sensual appeal, and romantic tone at a glance.

Baseline Prompt Rules

Solo adult woman, clearly 19 or older.
Full-body standing key art, vertical composition.
Main direction: glossy anime romance game key art with saturated color, crisp linework, expressive eyes, polished skin highlights, and stronger character-specific silhouettes.
Use bright romance-game presentation, attractive adult proportions, vivid fashion readability, and bold facial identity.
Legacy semi-realistic and pure photoreal styles are now comparison tests only, not the target.
Mature, attractive, unmistakably sensual fashion and body language.
No nudity, explicit sex act, fetish framing, school uniform, childlike styling, or ambiguous age.
No text, logo, watermark, extra characters, or busy background.
Use generous margins so the character can be used as a standing portrait asset.

Quality Checklist

An image passes only when all of these are true:

The character clearly reads as an adult.
Outfit, pose, expression, and silhouette match the character brief.
Face identity is distinct from the rest of the cast, not just the same face with different hair or clothing.
Face shape, eye shape, brow style, nose/mouth proportions, hairstyle, makeup intensity, and expression habit should all reinforce the character archetype.
Even shy or pure-hearted characters still carry visible adult sensual charm through styling, posture, and lighting.
Body type is distinct from the rest of the cast.
Face is appealing, stable, and not uncanny.
Hands, legs, and feet have no obvious anatomy errors.
The asset works as a base standing image in a character screen.
Resolution is high enough for production review, or the asset is marked as a draft for upscaling/regeneration.

Cast Variety Targets

Avoid making every character the same face, height, pose, and body shape.
Do not default every character to the same oval face, long dark hair, soft eyes, small nose, and gentle smile.
Rotate visual tone: warm, shy, sharp, glamorous, mature, athletic, artistic, elegant, casual.
Use fashion to signal route identity before the player reads text.
Keep sensuality character-specific: shy routes should feel quietly irresistible, career routes sharply confident, public-image routes glamorous, and mature routes restrained but intense.

Facial Identity Rules

Every character prompt must include at least three facial differentiators: face shape, eye shape, brow style, hairstyle, makeup level, expression habit, or facial maturity.
Similar hairstyle and face structure are allowed only when the route concept demands it; otherwise vary hair length, bangs, parting, styling, and volume.
Approval requires comparing the candidate against existing assets at thumbnail size and full size.
If a candidate looks like another character in cosplay, mark it needs_revision instead of accepted.

Current Asset Notes

assets/characters/han_seoyun_glossy_v2.png: accepted glossy anime cooking-instructor base asset.
assets/characters/yu_harin_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime shy-librarian base asset.
assets/characters/kang_mirae_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime brand-manager base asset.
assets/characters/jung_naeun_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime tsundere-cafe base asset.
assets/characters/baek_chaewon_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime event-planner base asset.
assets/characters/oh_sera_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime mature-florist base asset.
assets/characters/moon_jia_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime festival-staff base asset.
assets/characters/lim_sohee_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime clinic-receptionist base asset.
assets/characters/cha_yuri_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime model base asset.
assets/characters/shin_yerim_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime concert-producer base asset.
assets/characters/kim_doa_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime adult-university base asset.
assets/characters/park_minseo_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime fitness-trainer base asset.
assets/characters/seo_irin_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime illustrator base asset.
assets/characters/yoon_gayoung_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime friend-to-lover base asset.
assets/characters/choi_ria_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime influencer base asset.
assets/characters/hong_sua_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime jazz-bar-owner base asset.
assets/characters/lee_bom_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime flower-shop base asset.
assets/characters/go_eunjae_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime lawyer base asset.
assets/characters/ryu_haena_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime nail-artist base asset.
assets/characters/nam_juhee_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime police-officer base asset.
assets/characters/marina_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime international-coordinator base asset.
assets/characters/song_arin_glossy_v1.png: accepted glossy anime second-chance-shop-owner base asset.
assets/characters/style_references/glossy_anime_fallback_reference.png: user-approved main reference for the bolder anime romance look.
assets/characters/style_references/semirealistic_main_reference.png: legacy semi-realistic reference kept for comparison.
Legacy semi-realistic candidates remain useful for comparison but should not be treated as the main visual direction unless the user redirects the style again.
assets/characters/style_tests/han_seoyun_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/kang_mirae_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/yu_harin_photoreal_test.png: useful pure-photoreal comparison, but no longer the main direction.
assets/characters/style_tests/han_seoyun_semi_realistic_test.png: earlier semi-realistic comparison candidate.
assets/characters/style_tests/yu_harin_semi_realistic_test.png: earlier semi-realistic comparison candidate.

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