Models
Casting in FLAM — a board of models, free, for sale or exclusive, or one you bring yourself. A model is a collage, which is what holds a face across a whole set.
A model is a collage: several views of the same person on one sheet. Attached as the last reference on every develop, that collage is what holds a face across forty frames. No identity adapter, no face-matching lane.
Models →The board
Browse, open one at full size, and take the one that suits the collection. Three kinds:
- Free — included on every plan.
- For sale — bought once at a stated price. Yours afterwards.
- Exclusive — bought once, priced higher, and then nobody else has it.
Buying a model goes through checkout, at a price you see first. Tokens meter developing and nothing else. See quality and cost.
An exclusive is claimed atomically, so two houses cannot buy the same face. Whoever pays first has it, and the board shows everyone else that it is taken.
Bringing your own
Drop two to four photographs of the same person into the chat and the house composes the collage for you: it looks at what you brought for free, reads the face for one token, quotes the sheet, and marks its own output before you see it. The whole sequence is written up at cast your own model.
What it composes is a model-digitals sheet: front, three-quarter, full profile and the back of the head, in consistent light, without heavy retouching. If you already hold a sheet like that, register it as-is and skip the develop.
Never a single headshot
One angle gives the house nothing to work from when the pose turns, so the face drifts and a buyer sees a family rather than a person.
Order matters
References are a sequence, not a bag. Inspiration and base go first, the pieces sit in the middle, and the model goes last. If you are driving the house through the API, send them in that order. Two collages weaken both.
Checking that a set held
Lay the frames out together and look at the group. Consistency is a property of the set, so it cannot be checked one frame at a time. Three tells, in order: the jaw and hairline in the three-quarter turns, the shoulder line under the garment, and the direction of the light.
Related
- The craft argument: the same model, every frame.
- Where a model gets cast: the Lookbook.
The Lookbook
The six-step wizard — model, pieces, ground, lock, variations, develop. Locking one approved frame is what makes a set read as one shoot.
Cast your own model
Drop two to four photographs of one person into the chat and the house develops a four-view digitals sheet from them. It reads the photographs first for free, quotes the sheet before anything moves, marks its own output, and hangs the result on your casting rail.