Best practices

These are suggestions, not rules.

• Lock your characters. Reuse reference sheets for each face, costume and voice. A lead who changes between shots loses people fast.
• Keep a series bible. Save style prompts, seeds and locations so episode 10 still looks like episode 1.
• Cut around weak shots. Hands, lip sync and long takes show the seams first. Regenerate or cut away.
• Treat sound as half the film. Steady voices, room tone and music hold different generations together.
• Write the season before you generate. It saves credits and gives your first locked episode a moment worth paying for.
• Check your drop-off. Your series page in Studio shows the average share of each episode people watched.