u/RepresentativeTie734

Hi everyone,

I’m working on a stop-motion style short film featuring two main characters (a couple) in a minimalist setting—very few objects against a deep white background, similar to the Pocoyó TV series style.

I’m currently using Midjourney to generate my keyframes/scenes, but I’ve hit a couple of specific workflow blocks that are preventing me from putting together a proper pilot:

1. Multiple Characters in One Scene: When trying to generate start keyframes that include both characters together, Midjourney keeps conflicting. I'm running into major issues when trying to apply multiple character references (using --cref) for more than one character at the same time. The characters either blend together or lose their distinct features entirely. How do you successfully manage two distinct character references in a single prompt?
2. Blocking and Entrances: I’m also struggling with character movement into the frame. Ideally, I want a character to physically "walk or come into" the scene rather than just statically occupying the frame right from the start. Midjourney keeps wanting to render them fully centered and present from frame one. Is there a specific prompting trick, region-varying technique, or panning workflow you use to handle character entrances smoothly?

I've already fully scripted out the short, but these two composition issues have completely stalled my scene building. I will link my script and a few of the reference frames I've managed to generate in the comments for context.

Any advice, workflow tweaks, or advanced prompting strategies to get around these limitations would be amazing!

I'm planning to create stop-motion like short with multiple scenes. It would have just two characters, a couple, with very few objects in scene in a deep white background as in Pocoyó tv series.

I have been testing with a couple of scenes with Midjourney but have been facing some conflicts when trying to have both characters in scene (Issue starts when I try to add more than two omni reference characters when trying to create the start key frame).

I have already set a script for the short but scenes where both should be in scene have stopped me to continue building at least a proper pilot.

*another issue not a main blocker or concern is that I think there's a limitation when trying to indicate that a character should 'come' into the scene, not just appear straight up in the start frame, is there a way to tackle this? It's not a big concern since I can make a work around from the script itself.

* I will attach the link to my script and also to some of the refs i have created for context

Any suggestion on a different AI tool that could work better based on the project? Or any suggestion on how to work with Midjourney? I'm a newbie on creating ai videos