Custom Visual Style: How to Write Your Own Look

Where it is, step by step

1. Open the project’s step 1, Set Up Your Project. Visual Style is the first of the three style cards (Scene Style and Costume Style sit next to it).
2. Click the card. The picker opens with the grid of preset samples and one line of hint text: the style sets the rendering medium and texture of the whole piece, and the character sheets, scenes and video all inherit it.
3. Along the bottom of the picker is the row of special choices. On the Visual Style card that is + Custom Style. (Scene Style and Costume Style also have a None there.)
4. Press it. The picker closes and a text box appears under the card, marked Enter custom style description.... Type your description there.
5. The card now reads Custom Style instead of a preset name, with your sentence under it. If you change your mind, open the picker again and click a preset — that clears the custom text and goes back to the preset.

Nothing is committed until you press Next: before that you can switch between presets and your own text as often as you like, and edit the text in place.

What your text replaces

• It is one or the other. The project’s style is either a preset or your text — the box does not add to a preset. If you like a preset but want one thing different, describe the whole look in your own words.
• Used as written. Your sentence is passed on exactly as typed: nothing translates it, rewrites it, or expands it. What you name is what the generators get.
• Length. The box shows no counter; the project keeps up to 200 characters and quietly cuts anything past the 200th. Two or three sentences cover everything a style needs.
• Empty box. If you continue with the box empty (spaces only), the preset you had selected before is saved — by default that is Realistic HD. So an empty box is never a broken project, just a preset project.
• No charge. Writing the description costs nothing. Your images and videos cost exactly what they cost under any preset.
• The AI suggestion never fills this box. When you let the AI pick a style, it chooses among the presets; wording your own is yours to do.

What it shapes

• Every character sheet, scene image and prop image in step 2 — the first thing you will see carrying your look.
• State variants and AI redraws you generate later: anything produced for the project afterwards keeps the same style.
• Every video segment of the project: each video prompt carries it.
• The script read, too: it rides along when your script is read, so the descriptions written for your cast and sets keep to the same look.
• What it never changes: what happens in a shot. Framing, camera, blocking and dialogue come from the storyboard; the style only decides how the frame is drawn.

How to write a description that holds up

The test is one question: could you point at each phrase in a finished frame? A medium, a surface, the way lines and shadows behave, a palette — all pointable. Praise, moods and orders are not. Two or three sentences is plenty. Six examples that pass the test:

• Film: 35mm film look: visible fine grain, a soft glow around lights, slightly faded warm shadows, muted greens.
• Watercolor: Hand-painted watercolor: visible paper grain, pigment pooling along the edges, thin broken outlines, a pale earth palette with one warm accent.
• Cel animation: Flat cel shading: hard-edged color fields, bold uniform outlines, no gradients, a high-saturation primary palette.
• Stop-motion clay: Clay stop-motion: every surface keeps fingerprints and tool marks, rounded corners, matte toy colors, the shallow focus of a tabletop miniature.
• Picture-book painting: Gouache picture-book painting: matte paint texture, visible brush shapes, a short palette of indigo, ochre and cream, soft paper tooth.
• Ink: Black ink and grey wash: confident brush lines, paper white kept as large empty areas, no color, soft grain in the greys.

Keep it about how, not what: the people, the places and the events live in your script. The description of the look is the one place where you talk about painting, not about the story.

Three ways descriptions go wrong

• Praise instead of description. “Beautiful, cinematic, 8K, masterpiece quality” names nothing visible; these words are noise to the render at best. Write the cause instead: “soft window light, muted pastel palette, visible paper texture.”
• Camera and framing orders. “Extreme close-ups throughout, the heroine always fills the frame” — every shot already gets its own framing from the storyboard, and a project-wide order fights each of them. A style describes how a frame is painted, not how it is shot.
• Names, and the wrong layer. “In the style of” a studio, franchise or artist: those names can get your generations rejected by the video moderation, so describe the look in plain traits instead. And scene content like “rainy neon street at night” is not a rendering style — it belongs to the scene row or the script.

One trap is specific to this box: your text also goes into the scene and prop images, which are supposed to show no people at all. Person words in the style (“a lone swordsman”, “a pretty girl”) can pull figures into those empty sets. Keep the description to medium, material and light.

Locked once you continue — and who can use it

Under the three style cards sits the notice, and it means what it says: the style cannot be changed once you continue, because it shapes every character sheet, scene and video; to switch styles, start over with a new script. Custom text is under the same lock — there is no edit entry after step 1, so your last chance to change a word is before you press Next.

On membership: custom style is one of the member features. On a free account the + Custom Style button carries a small PRO tag and picking it opens the membership dialog instead of the box; the requirement is also enforced when the project is saved, not just on the button.

The same box on the other two rows

Scene Style and Costume Style each have their own + Custom Style, with the same member rule, the same length limit and the same lock at continue. They then work differently once the project runs: they are folded into the descriptions at the script read rather than pasted in front of every image, which is explained in Scene Style and Costume Style Apply at Parse Time, Not Later. Their example placeholders show the flavor: an art direction like “old industrial plant, steel frames and rusted sheet metal, cold green palette”, or a costume system like “Miao silver regalia, pleated skirts and horned crowns, indigo batik”.

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Updated October 10, 2026