Evidence · first-party tested/Best AI Tools for Consistent AI Characters Across Scenes and Poses

The tool can keep the café mood and pose while drifting the face enough that a frontal reference reads as a lookalike rather than the same person.

⚠ Struggled🧾 artifact-verifiedinput + output shownTest date not recordedLeonardo AI →

What was measured

Identity preservation

How closely the generated face matches the reference image across scenes.

decisive for this rankingtransformation

This is the core of the task: the tool must keep the same character looking like the reference image across scenes. (3 of 3 judges)

What was given, what came back

Test input: Full frontal portrait · image

Input — what we sent

Full frontal portrait reference image with fair skin, curly dark hair, bindi, gold jhumka earrings, and a green stone necklace. All features are clearly visible in good natural lighting, making it the easiest identity anchor for the tools.

Why this input is hard

· Baseline identity preservation
· Accessory retention
· Best-case frontal face matching
· Consistent character reuse across varied scenes

Output — unretouched

Also checked on this input — same tool, 3 other criteria

Accessory & detail retention⚠ StruggledIt drops the reference's natural curl pattern and smooths hair and skin detail into a more stylised finish.Expression accuracy✗ FailedIt does not translate an explicitly angry or guarded prompt into facial expression, defaulting to calm neutrality.Scene compliance◐ MixedIt can place the subject in a believable interrogation setup with the correct outfit, but the room stays too neat and loses the harsh institutional atmosphere.

Provenance

Observation: 740bb089-c12d-47a9-b130-7309695a8640
Evidence run: 1dfb8fa4-f7f0-47dc-911b-7db3af467e9a
Study: Generate Consistent AI Characters Across Different Scenes and Poses
Research task: 86b96df11
Tested at: not recorded
Source: first-party
Evidence state: verified
Proof shown: input + output shown
Cost / latency: not captured
Repeat run: not captured
Tester: not captured

The last three rows are honest blanks, not placeholders — our capture has no field for them yet.

Query this

get_evidence({
  tool: "leonardo-ai"
})

MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp

JSON · ai.aidemos.com/v1/observations/740bb089-c12d-47a9-b130-7309695a8640

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Same input, same check — 4 other tools

measured on Identity preservation

ChatGPT✓ WorkedKeeps facial structure close to the reference in a frontal composition and is described as the best output from this input, with identity held strongly overall.Gemini✗ FailedIn the horse-riding scene, the tool can erase the reference face entirely: the report calls the identity match very weak and says the output is a completely different character with changed face shape, eyes, and eyebrows.ImagineArt✓ WorkedThe interrogation-room output is the strongest Input 1 match, with the eyes, nose, lips, and face shape closest to the reference across the Input 1 scenes.Scenario✓ WorkedThe tool can keep a subject recognisably the same person in an action scene, with face shape, eyes, and overall look staying close to the reference.

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