How to keep your characters the right size relative to each other
Ask Vizard Agent to write explicit height notes onto the cast sheet and to review every generated scene for scale as its own pass. A reference sheet anchors faces, costumes and colours. It says nothing about how tall anyone is, so relative size has to be stated as a rule and then checked separately from whether the character looks right.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
State scale to Vizard Agent as a rule rather than as an adjective. "A child" describes who a character is, while "reaches the dockhand's chest" is a constraint the next scene can actually be checked against. Ask for a count too, because a sheet asked to hold eighteen figures can quietly come back with fifteen.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It treats the cast sheet as the thing every scene inherits from, so the sheet is built, found wrong and repaired three times before a single scene is generated. Height goes onto it as a rule, because a cast sheet draws everyone at the same size. This was an animated short with eighteen characters. In the session behind this article it:
- Reviewed every supplied character design angle by angle and organised all eighteen into one shared production reference.
- Checked the generated sheet against the original designs, found three characters missing and repaired it, enforcing the full layout and consistent accessory placement.
- Re-checked the sheet in larger sections so small details stayed readable, and corrected identity errors: wrong ears, hair untied, wrong species.
- Locked the corrected sheet with explicit height notes, then generated the scenes using those identities and stature rules.
- Reviewed every scene for scale as a separate pass and built staging references for the retakes.
When does this not work well?
Scale is hardest where there is nothing to compare against. A character alone in frame has no reference, so their size is set by the props and the framing, and a shot with no familiar object in it can read at any scale. Extreme perspective defeats the rule, and chibi and realistic figures don't compare cleanly.
Common questions
How should I state heights? As comparisons. Vizard Agent uses "reaches his chest" far better than a number.
Does it check the sheet is complete? Yes, if you ask. Vizard Agent counts the characters against your originals.
Can it fix scale in a finished scene? Sometimes. Usually Vizard Agent stages the shot again against a reference.