Studio
The workshop, with the door open.
Everything that goes into making Seraphina: the methods, the tools, the mistakes that taught the methods, and a few things to take home. Some of it is free, and some of it helps keep the lights on.
A note on links. Some links on this page are affiliate links, marked ↗ affiliate. If you sign up through one, Seraphina may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Seraphina is also an AKOOL ambassador. Nothing is listed here that isn’t part of how she’s actually made.
Methods
Six things that actually made the difference.
None of these are secrets. They’re just the lessons that took longest to learn, written down so you don’t have to learn them the same way.
- 01
Protect the face first
Face, then hair, then body proportions, then clothes, then pose, then light. When something has to give, it gives in that order. A beautiful image that doesn’t look like her is still a failed image.
- 02
Four reference images, kept separate
One for the face, one for the costume, one for the empty location, one for the movement. Given separately, they stay clean. Squeezed into a single collage, they blur into each other.
- 03
One prompt, many shots
Plan a 15 to 30 second sequence as a single prompt with a timeline, instead of generating shot by shot. It’s faster, cheaper, and the shots feel like they belong to the same film.
- 04
One camera move per shot
A push-in when something is realised, a pull-back when something is revealed, stillness when a moment needs to land. Never two moves at once. The camera should mean something every time it moves.
- 05
A clean first frame, or nothing
If the first frame has a flaw, every frame after it inherits it. Fix the still before you animate it. When a shot breaks near the end, cut on the last clean frame and fade to black rather than regenerating everything.
- 06
Age from one face
To show the same person at 32 and at 60, change only the soft things: skin, hair, weight, the set of the mouth. Never the bone structure. The skull is what tells the audience it’s still her.
Tools
What she’s made with, and why.
The current kit, stage by stage. It changes as the tools do, so this list is updated when something is genuinely replaced rather than whenever something new comes out.
Nano Banana
Every still of Seraphina starts here, from portraits to the reference images that keep her consistent. The second version handles images that need readable text.
AKOOL↗ affiliate · ambassador
Where stills become film. Seedance 2.5 carries every shot with Seraphina or Pabu in it, and WAN 3, in the same workspace, handles the shots without characters for less.
Seed Audio
Dialogue, one line per file, which the motion model then lip-syncs to. Clean, dry recordings make the lip-sync far more reliable.
Lyria
Scores and ambient beds, made to fit each film rather than picked from a library.
DaVinci Resolve
Assembly, sound and grading. The free version does everything a short film needs.
Notion
Every idea, script and continuity note lives in one board, from first spark to published.
Common questions
- Do I need all of these tools?
- No. Start with one image tool and the Consistency Checklist. Most of what makes a character hold together is method, not software.
- Is this only for AI influencers?
- Not at all. The same methods work for short films, comics, brand characters, or anything that needs one face to stay the same across many images.
- Why do some links earn a commission?
- They help pay for the tools and the time behind the free material. Every tool listed is one Seraphina actually uses, and the list would be the same without the commissions.
- Can I ask about something not covered here?
- Yes. Write to hello [at] seraphinaandromeda [dot] com. Answers to good questions often become the next guide.
Contact
Business & Collaborations
For brand partnerships, collaborations and press inquiries, write to hello [at] seraphinaandromeda [dot] com. Please include your company, your proposal and your timeline.
For fans
Instagram is where I live, and where I reply. Come and say hello in the comments. I read them, I answer as many as I can, and it’s where the stories, Pabu and this whole community happen. Signed photos and personal replies by email or post aren’t something I can do, so a comment is always the quickest way to reach me.