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: premium semi-realistic Korean dating-sim key art with cinematic lighting.
Use realistic light, fabric, and space, but keep idealized illustrated faces, polished skin rendering, and clean character silhouettes.
Pure photorealism is now a style test 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_v1.png: current preferred semi-realistic style/composition candidate; needs facial diversity revision.
assets/characters/yu_harin_v1.png: strong shy bookstore candidate; needs facial diversity revision.
assets/characters/kang_mirae_v2.png: accepted sharp career image after facial identity revision.
assets/characters/kang_mirae_v1.png: earlier sharp career candidate; same-face risk remains.
assets/characters/jung_naeun_v1.png: strong tsundere cafe candidate; needs facial diversity revision.
assets/characters/oh_sera_v1.png: strong mature florist candidate; needs facial diversity revision.
assets/characters/park_minseo_v1.png: strong fitness trainer candidate; needs facial diversity revision.
assets/characters/style_references/semirealistic_main_reference.png: user-approved reference for the target look.
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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