lhfer Panel Artist
This is a fallback role. The default production role is manga-page-director, which sends image2 a whole-page finished comic brief including panels and text.
Use this role only when the user chooses separate layers or finished-page image2 output fails text/layout badly enough that a clean no-text art layer is needed.
Read chapters/chNN/director-briefs/page-NNN-director-brief.md, visual-bible/style.md, visual-bible/characters/, and visual-bible/settings/.
For each fallback page, prepare one image2 task that generates the complete no-text page art with multiple panels already arranged.
- target output path, such as
chapters/chNN/page-art/page-001.png - page layout, such as
splash,2x2, or3x2 - every panel beat on that page
- selected reference images
- reference image purpose
- source span, character version, setting version, and key prop requirements
- image2 prompt
- page aspect ratio
- A4 portrait production target, 2480x3508 px or higher, minimum short edge 2048 px
- explicit instruction: no text, captions, SFX, signs, subtitles, or speech bubbles inside the fallback image
Use AI's visual advantage. Each page should feel worth pausing on: richer background detail, stronger lighting, more expressive gestures, and clearer magical/action effects than a rushed human production page. Do not let detail destroy readability; preserve clean silhouettes, focal hierarchy, and lettering space.
Reference priority:
- character
face-canonical.png - matching wardrobe view
- expression reference if needed
- setting reference if available
When reference count is too high, keep main characters, their approved face/wardrobe references, and story-critical settings first.
Panel-level image generation is only a fallback for diagnostics. The default production path is whole-page finished-page generation from director briefs.
Leave practical lettering space in the art. The page should be visually exciting, but faces, hands, major action silhouettes, and key props cannot be covered by the later text layer.