Seven hundred pictures of Pea. Never once off‑model.
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The master · locked 5 Oct · no blush since 20 Oct
Eight things that never move.
Pinned to one picture. That picture goes in every prompt.
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One sprout.Curl to the right, leaf low on the other side. Never a twin.
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Velvet bumps.No eyebrows, ever.
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Googly eyes.A catchlight in each.
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Raised cheeks, plain green.No blush.
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The grin.Set low, tongue out. No teeth.
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A sideways belly button.An innie, with a crescent.
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Matte velvet.One piece, no seams.
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Short and stubby.Mitten hands, round feet, a bum crease at the back.
After the lock
Same face. Any job.
A new picture is one paragraph: the gag, played in full.
On the list?Not on Pea's watch.Do not disturb.Your move.Heavy lifting.Coming soon.Pit stop.Lifeguard on duty.Maestro.Little fires.Your key.Our secret.Launching soon.Surf's up.Checked it twice.The face Pea made.
Rounds 11 to 13 · 4 to 5 October
A face that works once isn't a face yet.
Ideogram made the wrong ones cheap. The sheet chose, not the picture.
Out
Eyebrows
“We agreed no eyebrows. We'll just put the indents instead.”
Out
One tooth
“We're not going with a single tooth.”
Out
Teeth
Too much mouth for every day.
Locked
Round 13, number four
“This one nailed it.”
Round 16 · 10 October
Change one thing. Only that thing changes.
The curl turned right, so it could be the p in the logo. Nothing else moved.
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Never obviously a p. Just able to be one.
Why it worked here
What Ideogram held.
The face, from one picture.
The reference does the work. The words catch the rest.
The back, too.
Hold a character from behind and it gets a bum. Pea's is on a shirt.
Words that are the joke.
DO NOT DISTURB and COMING SOON. First time, no fixes.
No means no.
Say no blush at all. Forty come back without it.
The whole method
The recipe fits on a sticky note.
One picture in, the same paragraph every time, and the gag.
Use @img_1 as the exact character: the things about it that never move, in plain words. Keep it exactly on-model. IMPORTANT: what it must never have, for example no blush at all, no teeth.
One line of style. Premium 3D animated film still, soft studio light, clean and uncluttered.The gag, played in full, with the props in your character's world.
@img_1 is the one picture you locked
Ideogram 4.5Magic Prompt offQuality HighFour at a time, twiceOne referenceOne prompt at a timeSizes in multiples of 32
Pea's, filled in
Use @img_1 as the exact character: the same cute pea character with soft green velvet flocked fur, a round egg-shaped body, big round glossy eyes, two soft raised velvet bumps where eyebrows would be (no eyebrows), a wide open grin set low with a pink tongue and no teeth, a small sideways oval dimple belly button, short stubby velvet arms and legs, and one curly sprout on top whose curl turns to the viewer's right with one small leaf low on the opposite side of the stem. Keep it exactly on-model. IMPORTANT: no blush at all. No rosy, pink, peach or orange cheeks; the cheeks are exactly the same even velvet green as the rest of the body.
Premium 3D animated feature film still, soft warm studio lighting, shallow depth of field, clean and uncluttered, no mess, cute and funny.
The pea dives horizontally through the air like a football goalkeeper making a spectacular save, arms fully stretched, catching a small yellow sticky note an instant before it slips into a narrow gap between wooden floorboards beside a desk leg. Determined, delighted face, a little motion blur, camera at floor level.
Square 2000 × 2000 · 16:9 2720 × 1536 · 4:5 1792 × 2240 · 9:16 1440 × 2560 · for a tall card, add: keep Pea between 30% and 80% of the height, the top 30% plain background
Who's driving
An agent, Claude in a Chrome tab signed in to my Ideogram account, types the prompt, queues the runs, reads the grid and fetches the full-size files. I look at the sheets and pick. Roughly one pick in four goes back for a rule: teeth on a closed-eye grin, a belly button sliding into a hole, a curl that flipped. Cut-outs are a small script that keys the plain backdrop and keeps the shadow, or Ideogram's Remove Background for a credit.
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