Everything worth knowing before you generate

Seven of the eight reference angles are derived from the one picture you supply, so its weaknesses are inherited by all of them. What matters, roughly in order:

• Face square to the camera. A three-quarter upload makes the synthesized profile a guess about a guess.
• Even, soft light. Hard shadow across half a face gets baked into every angle as if it were bone structure.
• Nothing covering the face — no sunglasses, no hand, no hair across an eye.
• One person in frame, and reasonably sharp. Resolution matters far less than focus.

You approve or replace every synthesized angle before the character is locked, so a bad one is a click to fix rather than a reason to start over.

The direction a subject faces is read out of your prompt and used to pick which locked angle to condition on. That makes direction worth stating explicitly rather than leaving to chance.

• Say where she is looking. “Looking back over her shoulder” selects a different reference than “facing the camera.”
• Say where the camera is. “Low angle,” “from above,” “wide from across the room” all resolve to different slots.
• Describe the scene, not the person’s features. The face is already locked; re-describing it only gives the model licence to reinterpret it.
• For a video, remember the angle is re-inferred at every beat — so a turn mid-shot is handled, and you can write one.

The exact price of any generation is shown before you confirm it, and nothing is charged until it runs. The things that move the number are resolution, duration and which route the prompt takes.

Free credits are charged exactly like bought ones. There is one price list, every mode is open on it, and the resolution picker moves the price on a free balance the same way it does on a paid one. The 50 credits a new account starts with are there to answer one question: does the face hold?

They had their own flat rate until 8 November 2026, which made the size and model controls change nothing on a free account. That is gone.

Two things have to be true before a restricted model is reachable: the account has met the age requirement, and the setting is switched on in Settings. Either one missing and the prompt is handled as ordinary work — it is not quietly routed somewhere else.

With both on, those prompts run across several providers with automatic failover when one declines, so a refusal from one does not become an error for you. Screening still applies in both directions: prompts are gated before a provider is called, and finished video is checked frame by frame before it is delivered.

The confirmation can be withdrawn at any time, which closes those models again.

Individual results in the activity rail are deleted after 3 days, or longer on a paid plan. Download anything you want to keep, as soon as you have it.

Assembled films, director shots and character references are not affected by that window — only the loose results. Characters and environments stay on your account and are reusable across future work, which is the point of locking them in the first place.