{
 "slug": "real-person-references",
 "name": "Real person references",
 "category": "character",
 "group": "Real people",
 "media": [
  "image",
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "A real person who actually looks like themselves in a generated scene.",
 "use_when": "Founders, employees, clients appearing in AI content (with their consent).",
 "phrase": "tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "A generated character sheet is never the identity source for a real person; their real photographs go in directly.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "House rule"
  },
  {
   "text": "To keep a face exactly and the lipsync real, no generative video edit model works: they all re-render the person.",
   "evidence": "measured",
   "source": "House rule"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [],
 "licensed": [],
 "site_names": [],
 "related": [
  "character-sheet-face",
  "two-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "Our measured rules, a house rule"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/character/real-person-references",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/character/real-person-references.md",
 "prompts": {
  "nano-banana-pro": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature.",
  "nano-banana-2": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature.",
  "gpt-image": "A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].\nPeople and framing: tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature\nExclusions: no extra text, no watermark, no logo.",
  "seedream-5": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature.",
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nCast: [your subject]; tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nCast: [your subject]; tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature\nShot 1: one continuous shot",
  "kling-3": "[your subject], tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature. The scene is [your setting].",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Tight face crops of the real person (one frontal, one neutral), plus a full-body crop per person, and a likeness line: exactly alike, feature by feature. Framing and subject stay as in the start image."
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}