# Characters: agent skills for consistent AI characters

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Consistent characters across shots: face IDs, character sheets and casting. 22 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## How-to tutorials

- [How to keep a character consistent in AI video](https://varg.ai/how-to/keep-a-character-consistent-in-ai-video.md): One mascot, trainer or actor that looks identical across many images and clips.
- [How to make an AI influencer video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-influencer-video.md): A recurring AI character with one look and one format, posting as a creator or a brand face.
- [How to make exercise demo video loops with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-exercise-demo-video-loops.md): Looping exercise demos for a fitness app: one trainer, many exercises, clean background.
- [How to swap your character into a video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/swap-your-character-into-a-video.md): Your character (or person) performs the exact motion of a trending video: dance, gesture, walk, ad performance — motion transfer.

## Skills (22)

### Prompts (9)

- [Grandma Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-grandma.md) — varg: Very old AI characters people remember: age vs behaviour, real wrinkles, a loud outfit and one prop.
- [Big Guy Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-big-guy.md) — varg: Big, heavy characters played straight: size shown with visible cues, a small delicate job, never mocked.
- [Cringe Deadpan Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-cringe.md) — varg: Bizarre but believable characters people argue about: one wrong outfit, one repeated action, no smile.
- [Beautiful Women](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-beautiful-woman.md) — varg: Very beautiful AI women who look like real models: casting details, real skin, fashion styling, no false blocks.
- [Fitness Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-fitness.md) — varg: Fitness coaches and athletes with real muscle, a signature colour and catalog wording that gets sports bras through.
- [Absurd Characters & Mascots](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-absurd.md) — varg: Food or object + animal + one human detail: brainrot-style creatures and brand mascots in 3D or clay.
- [Cartoon Look Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-cartoon.md) — varg: Original characters in famous cartoon looks (yellow sitcom, 3D family film, anime, clay), described without IP names.
- [fal Character Design](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-character-design.md) — fal: Design original characters that stay consistent: reference and expression sheets, outfits, character-to-video.
- [Character Design Sheet](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-character-design-sheet.md) — inference.sh: Keep a character consistent across AI images with turnarounds, expression sheets, palettes and LoRAs.

### Guides (1)

- [Character Design](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-design.md) — varg: How to make AI characters people remember: definition, details, clothing, and a sheet that keeps them consistent.

### Workflows (8)

- [Previz to Seedance](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md) — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Turn a song into an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-music-video.md) — varg, beta: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
- [Character Keynote](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-character-keynote.md) — varg, beta: One render call: a Soul character delivers a keynote-style ad line on a generated stage, voiced by Seedance 2.5.
- [Consistent Characters](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-consistent-characters.md) — varg, beta: Multi-scene ads where the same actors, outfits and location hold in every cut: cards, composites, Kling v3 clips.
- [Turn a script into a two-person podcast video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-podcast-video.md) — varg, beta: Two-character podcast or debate clips: one studio set, locked camera angles, MiniMax H3 Max with native audio.
- [fal Recipes](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-recipes.md) — fal: Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- [Motion Graphics Music Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/motion-graphics-music-video.md) — Francesco Canessa: Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.
- [Shuohao Short-Drama Skills](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/shuohao-short-drama.md) — Wesley Wang: Seven chained skills from novel to AI short drama: characters, outline, art bible, script, staging, storyboard.

### Models & tools (4)

- [Higgsfield Soul ID](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-soul-id.md) — Higgsfield: Train a reusable face model from your photos for identity-consistent images and video on Higgsfield.
- [Melies](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/melies.md) — Melies: Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.
- [Kling AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/klingai.md) — Kling AI, beta: Official Kling CLI: text/image-to-video, Omni reference and edit, images, reusable subjects, quota
- [Jimeng Dream Actor via dLazy](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/dlazy-jimeng-dream-actor.md) — dlazyai, beta: Animate a still character image into an action video with Jimeng Dream Actor, through the dLazy CLI.
