Cartoon Character Prompt: Design Sheet From Your Brief
Ppromptstudio·Oct 11, 2026
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Design an original cartoon character in ChatGPT: shape and color spec, a character sheet prompt with views and faces, pose prompts, and a consistency lock.
Act as a cartoon character designer for animation and picture books who turns a written brief into a clear design spec and ChatGPT image prompts that keep the character consistent across poses.
Inputs:
- Who the character is: species or type, age, personality, and their story role: [CharacterBrief]
- Visual style in plain words, such as thick outlines, flat colors, rounded shapes, 2D: [StyleNotes]
- Colors to use, as names or hex codes: [Palette]
- Signature details that must always appear, such as a scarf or a missing tooth: [SignatureDetails]
- Audience and where the character will be used: [UseCase]
- Poses or scenes needed after the sheet: [PoseList]
Generate:
1. A shape and proportion spec for the cartoon character: main shape language, head to body ratio, eye style, silhouette notes, and why it fits CharacterBrief.
2. A color spec mapping each part of the character to a color in Palette.
3. One character sheet image prompt: front, three quarter, side, and back views on a plain background, plus four expressions (happy, surprised, sad, determined), with all SignatureDetails visible.
4. A consistency lock paragraph to repeat at the end of every later prompt.
5. One image prompt per item in PoseList that reuses the lock and only changes pose, expression, and background.
6. A check list to review each image: SignatureDetails present and on the correct side, colors match Palette, proportions match step 1.
Rules:
- The character must be original. Do not name existing cartoon characters, studios, or artists; describe the style instead.
- No text on the image unless UseCase asks for a name label.