Reference pictures
The Forge measures your reference: outlines, proportions, colours, the eyes' position. The better the picture, the closer the model.
New: Nano Banana, step by step follows one model from the first picture to the engine, with every prompt, the clay, depth and normal pictures, blueprint planes and zebra checks.
What makes a reference good
- A plain light grey background, no scenery.
- For characters: a turnaround (front, three-quarter, side and back, standing in a relaxed A-pose, side by side, the same size).
- The whole object in frame, nothing cut off, evenly lit.
- One object per picture (or one figure per view on a turnaround).
Where references come from
Your own drawings or photos work. So does any image AI. We use Nano Banana (Google's image model, in Google Flow or Gemini) for nearly every reference in our own games, because it's very good at exactly what the Forge needs. The next section is our full method.
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