Create and Customize Your Characters

Characters are at the heart of every great story and with Scrively, bringing them to life has never been easier. Whether you’re building heroes, villains, or side characters, Scrively allows you to create unique personas with names, roles, personalities, and visual references. 

Scrively will generate character suggestions tailored to your prompt, helping you bring your story to life with relevant and engaging personalities.

To ensure accurate and high-quality illustrations in your storybook, each character should have an associated image. If a character doesn’t have an image, the pop-up below will appear before you can proceed to the "Add Details" view.

Click on the ellipsis menu on the right hand side of each character to "Edit details", "Add to library" once the character is associated with an image or "Remove character."

When you navigate to “Edit Details,” the character’s information will be prefilled based on your prompt. You can customize your character by editing details such as their name, role, gender, age, description and add visual traits to shape their personality and relevance to your story.

Need help with your character’s description? Use the “Generate” option, and Scrively will create a character description for you!

When filling out the character description and visual traits field, don’t hold back on the details! The more information you provide such as their appearance, clothing, setting, and mood, the more accurate and creative your generated images will be. Think of it as painting a picture with words. 

This visual traits are automatically pulled into the "Generate Image" modal, and expanding it will help bring your vision to life.

Need help with your character’s visual traits? Use the “Generate” option, and Scrively will create the visual traits for you!

Hover over the character's avatar to add an image.

Alternatively, click on "Generate Character Image" to add an image.

Any visual traits you've added for a character will automatically appear in the image generation modal, where you can adjust or remove them as needed.

If you have a character image you'd like to use, click on "Attach image."

In this example, we'll remove the visual traits for the character and use just an image reference. The selected image will be displayed.

Click on "Generate image." 

Scrively will take a few moments to think.

The image will be converted into the illustration style you've selected. 

Alternatively, use a reference image with a character's visual traits. If you haven’t added rich details for the character, now’s the perfect time. The more specific and vivid your input, the better the results. Try including unique features, settings, moods, or visual elements to guide the image generation.

Click on "Generate image."

Scrively will take a few moments to think.

If you no longer want to generate the character image click on "Cancel."

The generated image will appear on the right side of the screen. 

If it’s not quite what you envisioned, feel free to refine your description, adding more detail or adjusting the tone, and then click “Regenerate image” to try again.

Just below the generated image, you’ll find all the character variations created from your prompt.

When you're satisfied click on "Done" and the image will be automatically saved for the character. 

To remove a photo that's associated with a character hover over their avatar and click on the trash icon.

Click on "Add new characters" to add additional characters to your story.

Similar to automatically generated characters, you can add an image along with details such as name, role, gender, age, and a description.

If any required character details are missing, you won’t be able to move forward to "Add Details." A tooltip will appear to let you know what’s missing.

Want to add a character from your library? Check out our guide here to learn how. Next, "Add details" to your story which we share more about in our guide here.