Guides
Step-by-step Nodaro guides on consistent characters and worlds, choosing models, creative controls, sharing workflows, social publishing and automations.
Guides are step-by-step articles that show you how to reach a result in Nodaro. Examples are a character that looks the same in every shot, or a workflow that posts a video every morning. Each guide explains the idea, gives you the steps, and links to the nodes and models it uses. For the building blocks behind the guides, read Core concepts.
Characters and worlds
Consistent characters
Keep the same person in every image and video, from one photo to a full cast.
Character Studio
Create a character, approve its portrait, and add expressions, poses and motion.
Locations
Build a reusable place with its times of day, weather and angles.
Objects
Keep a product or a prop identical across scenes.
Creatures
Create pets, animals and fantasy creatures that stay the same in every shot.
Character training
Train a character model for the closest likeness in image generations.
Better results
Choosing a model
Which image, video, audio and text model to use for each job, and what it costs.
Reference boards
Turn one photo into a board or a grid that anchors every later generation.
Reference roles
Tell the model what to take from each reference: the face, the outfit, the background or the style.
Palettes and moodboards
Steer Generate Image with your own saved colours, description and style reference images.
Creative controls
Set camera, light, mood, style and motion with pickers instead of long prompts.
Prompt snippets
Insert tested prompt fragments with the / menu, and save your own.
Worked examples
Pickers in action
What a picker choice becomes in the prompt, shown on real runs.
One portrait, five looks
Five looks on one AI portrait from Lighting, Color / Look, Style and Lens pickers, with no written prompt.
Seven songs from music pickers
Seven Suno songs whose descriptions the music pickers wrote: genre, mood, instruments and voice.
Ten camera angles from one frame
Ten shots of the same scene from one image: an LLM plans the coverage, and one image node renders it.
Share and automate
Import and export
Move a workflow between accounts, projects and self-hosted installs as one file.
Community library
Browse shared characters, locations, objects and creatures, and clone them into your library.
Publish to social media
Post images and videos to Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and more, straight from a workflow.
Automations
Run workflows on a schedule, from a webhook, a Telegram message or the API.
Further reading
Frequently asked questions
Where should I start if I am new to Nodaro?
Start with the quickstart in Get started, then read Choosing a model and Creative controls. They explain the two choices that change your results most, the model and the look.
How do I keep the same character in every image and video?
Read Consistent characters. It shows how to create a character once, approve its pictures, and connect it to every image and video node, with reference boards for extra consistency.
Can a workflow run on its own every day?
Yes. The Automations guide shows how to start a workflow on a schedule, from a webhook, from a Telegram message or from the API, with a daily news-to-video example.
Related
Quickstart
Core concepts
Node reference
AI models in Nodaro
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Consistent characters
The complete method to keep the same person, pet, product or place in every image and video, with assets, approved pictures, mentions and identity lock.