Assets for a gameRun 2026-09-21

Character kit — one brief, thirteen assets

One paragraph about a half-elf ranger became thirteen assets of one character, for 72.44 cr in one run.

assets from one brief: 13
charged for the run: 72.44 cr
steps completed: 27 / 27
per image: 3.7–5.5 s

01 · The problem

What the run had to answer.

A character in a game is more than one picture: a turnaround to model from, a portrait and expressions for dialogue, an icon for the interface, a 3D model that walks, a voice.

The question this run answers: can one written brief produce all of them, reading as the same character, in a single run?

02 · The workflow

Every step, every model, every charge.

The character-kit workflow

Two images are made from the brief — the identity and the portrait. Every other image is image-to-image from one of them, so the costume, palette and face carry across.

The brief, in full

Aelin, a half-elf ranger in weathered brown leather with a green hooded cloak, dark hair with one white streak, a scar through the left eyebrow, sharp green eyes, a longbow on her back.

Steps

Identity image
The reference everything else follows, made from the brief and a style.
FLUX.1 [dev] on Fal
Turnaround — front, side, back
Image-to-image from the identity.
FLUX.1 [dev] on Fal
Portrait, head and shoulders
From the brief again, with the same seed and style.
FLUX.1 [dev] on Fal
Expressions — neutral, angry, happy
Image-to-image from the portrait.
FLUX.1 [dev] on Fal
Icon on a clear background
Image-to-image from the portrait, then a background cutout.
FLUX.1 [dev], then BiRefNet on Fal
3D mesh, rig and walk animation
A mesh from the identity image, rigged, then given a walk cycle.
Tripo
Voice line
One spoken line in the character's voice.
ElevenLabs

What each step was charged

Step	cr
Nine images, 3.25 eachFLUX.1 [dev] on Fal	29.25
Icon cutoutBiRefNet on Fal	0.65
3D meshTripo	19.50
RigTripo	16.25
Walk animationTripo	6.50
Voice lineElevenLabs	0.29
Total, one run	72.44

A credit is a cent, so the run came to about $0.72. Figures are the charged step costs of the third run — the kit on Discover.

03 · Off the line

Thirteen assets of one character

An identity image — the reference the rest follows
A turnaround: front, side and back
A head-and-shoulders portrait
Three expressions: neutral, angry, happy
An icon, cut out on a clear background
A 3D mesh, a rigged mesh and a walk animation
A spoken voice line

All thirteen are on Discover, each with the model, provider and cost of the step that made it, and the workflow opens on the canvas from there.

04 · How it got there

Three runs to get there

The first run finished every step and still failed as a kit: the back view faced the front, the portrait was a full body, the three expressions were one face. The fix was not in the prompts.

Image-to-image keeps the composition at every strength. Raising the strength to 0.9 let the pose change — the back view finally turned round — but a full-body reference never became a close-up, whatever the prompt said.
So the portrait is made from the brief, with the same seed and style, and the expressions and icon follow the portrait instead of the full body.

Each run cost the same 72.44 cr; the lesson cost two of them. Run three is the kit on Discover: a head-and-shoulders portrait, an angry face that reads as angry, an icon cut clean.

05 · Where it fell short

Said plainly.

The details are weak. The white streak and the eyebrow scar came through faintly, or as a painted mark. That is prompt work, not pipeline work.
The portrait is a second generation, not a crop of the identity image, so it follows the brief rather than the identity exactly.
The 3D model is heavy. The rigged mesh is 101,050 triangles — far over a mobile budget and just over the top of a hero-character one. The run had no decimation step, and the mesh, rig and walk were not inspected beyond completing.
One character, one run. The kit shows the chain works for Aelin; a party of characters in one style has not been made.

Put your own brief on the line.

The kit is live on Discover — every asset, with the step that made it. Request an invite to run the character kit on your own brief — for now the 3D and voice steps need your own Tripo and ElevenLabs keys.

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