# Real person references

People and places / Character / Real people. Checked 2026-10-13.

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
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/character/real-person-references
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/character/real-person-references.json

## Watch out

- A generated character sheet is never the identity source for a real person; their real photographs go in directly. (measured; House rule)
- To keep a face exactly and the lipsync real, no generative video edit model works: they all re-render the person. (measured; House rule)

## 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 2.5

```
A photograph of [your subject] in [your setting].
People 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
Exclusions: 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].
Cast: [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
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): one continuous shot
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Cast: [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
Shot 1: one continuous shot
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[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.
```

## Goes well with

- Face sheet: https://directorchair.ai/character/character-sheet-face
- Two-shot: https://directorchair.ai/shot/two-shot

## Source

Our measured rules, a house rule

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