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Keeping the dish the same

A film shows one dish from four angles. Nothing makes that hard to look at faster than four slightly different dishes — a bowl that changes colour, a garnish that moves, a strawberry that wasn’t there before.

The rule

Every picture is drawn with the real photo of the dish held up beside it — not just the picture before it.

How it works

  1. When you make a film about a menu item, its hero photo is attached automatically. You can see it at the top of the Images step, under Style references.
  2. The shot list also writes down the dish itself — what is on the plate, the garnish and where it sits, the bowl’s shape and colour. It sits under The look on the first step, and you can edit it.
  3. Every picture after that is drawn with three things beside it: the real photo, the first picture you already made, and the one immediately before. Each one is labelled, so the model knows which is the true dish.
  4. If a picture still comes out wrong, fix the dish itself in step 1 first, then press Regenerate on that scene. Correcting the description fixes every scene you make afterwards; regenerating alone fixes one.

Good to know

  • The first scene is usually a wide shot where the dish is small. That’s fine — later scenes are anchored on the real photo, not on that one.
  • A dish with no photo has no anchor. Add a hero photo to the item before making the film and every scene gets a great deal closer.
  • You can add more references. Drop or add reference on the Images step takes up to four — a second angle of the same plate helps most.
  • An amber line under a picture means it was drawn without the photo to match. That one may not fit the others; regenerate it.
  • Regenerating a scene never uses its own old picture as the reference, so a retry is a real retry.