Character Reference Sheet: Palette and Turnaround
Turn one paragraph about an original character into a reference sheet spec: 4 turnaround views, palette with hex codes, lock list and prompt lines. Character Reference Sheet Planner turns one paragraph describing an original character into a reference-sheet spec you can hand to an illustrator or any AI image generator. It plans the design sheet; it does not draw it. It is the sibling of Character Image Set Shot-List Planner (which plans 15 story cuts): this one plans the design sheet that comes before those cuts, and its lock list becomes the anchor list for them.
Example input
[HAND-WRITTEN FICTIONAL SAMPLE - invented for testing.] Title: "I Repaired a 40-Year-Old Radio in 30 Days (Here's Every Mistake)". Summary: A hobbyist restores a broken 1980s tabletop radio over one month and walks through five mistakes with the power supply and the speaker. Thumbnail text I already plan: "I FIXED A 40 YEAR OLD RADIO!!"
Example output
"I Repaired a 40-Year-Old Radio in 30 Days (Here's Every Mistake)" — 6 issues (3 BLOCKER, 3 FIX) — verdict REVISE. ## Intake - Title (64 characters): I Repaired a 40-Year-Old Radio in 30 Days (Here's Every Mistake) - Summary: A hobbyist restores a broken 1980s tabletop radio over one month and walks through five mistakes with the power supply and the speaker. - Planned text (Option A): "I FIXED A 40 YEAR OLD RADIO!!" - (assumed) faceless workshop channel, hero object is the radio, dark workbench look. ## Draft brief 1. Concept: a dead old radio comes back to life after a month of repairs and mistakes. 2. Focal subject: the 1980s tabletop radio, back panel open, speaker grille toward the viewer, smoke rising from the back. 3. Overlay text: A "I FIXED A 40 YEAR OLD RADIO!!" (7 words, 29 characters); B "5 MISTAKES" (2 words, 10); C "DAY 30: SOUND?" (3 words, 14), recommended. 4. Color: background navy #1B2A41, text yellow #FFD23F, accent orange #FF5A36. Text sits on an orange burst shape, no stroke. 5. Composition: radio in left and center columns, middle and bottom rows; two-line text (DAY 30 / SOUND?) in the top-right cell; soldering iron bottom-left; bottom-right corner empty. 6. Element budget: radio, text on burst, soldering iron, smoke = 4. ## Reviewer findings (blind) ### R1 — Thumb-Size Reader - R1-1 BLOCKER — Option A is 7 words and 29 characters (limits 4 and 20); it needs 3+ lines, so each line falls under the 12% capital-height floor. Reject A. - Checked: C is 14 characters on two lines of about 15% frame height each (108 px on the master, about 14 px at 168x94, floor about 11 px); B is 10 characters. Nothing sits in the badge zone. ### R2 — Contrast and Clutter Inspector - R2-1 BLOCKER — #FFD23F text on the #FF5A36 burst = 2.15:1 (script-computed), under 3:1. Put the text on plain navy: #FFD23F on #1B2A41 = 10.0:1. - R2-2 FIX — 4 elements, budget is 3. Drop the soldering iron. ### R3 — Subject-Size Scout - no findings. Checked: radio about 55% of frame height (floor 30%), faceless hero object, plain navy behind it, no overlap with the text cell or badge zone. ### R4 — Title-Promise Auditor - R4-1 BLOCKER — The smoke implies a fire or failure. The title and summary mention power-supply and speaker mistakes, not smoke. Remove it; use a warm glow from the speaker grille. - R4-2 FIX — Option A restates the title. B reuses the title's word "mistake". - R4-3 FIX — C's "DAY 30" repeats the title's "30 Days". Alternative: "DOES IT PLAY?" (13 characters). …
Real output from running the skill on a sample problem, shortened. The skill file itself is not published here.