Breakdown
Character Consistency, With a Bow
This is a revision of an earlier project. I created the original keyframes in Midjourney over a year ago. The style still holds up, but the bee was inconsistent from frame to frame and out of scale in some scenes. I rebuilt the keyframes for accuracy and character consistency, then regenerated the film from them. Zoom into the graph to see each step.
- Year
- 2026
- Tools
- Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, MiniMax H3 Max, Weave, Topaz, ElevenLabs
The pipeline
Every node from the Weave workflow that made the film. Search it, click a node for details, and zoom in to see each image and clip. Prompts are shown as private.
Opens full screen. Drag to move, pinch to zoom.
How it works, stage by stage
- 01
Old keyframes
The original keyframes, made in Midjourney. I loved their look, so everything after this keeps it and only fixes what it got wrong.
ModelMidjourney
- 02
Character sheet
My starting reference was just a close-up of the bee's face, so I built a detailed character sheet from it for the edits to match against. The goal was consistent, not perfect: the same bow, and the same face from the front.
ModelGemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro)
- 03
New keyframes
Each Midjourney keyframe was edited in Nano Banana Pro, which is great at precise edits. The fixes were small: an extra wing, a missing leg, a bee too big for its scene, a honeycomb that changed between two frames. Some took more rounds than others. Partway through I gave the bee some pollen, and it carries it from then on.
ModelGemini 3 (Nano Banana Pro)
- 04
Shots
Each shot animates from one keyframe to the next, with both the first and the last frame given to the model. That is where the control comes from: the keyframes tell the story and hold the style, so the prompts don't need to describe the style at all. MiniMax H3 Max, for good quality at its price. Nine shots, joined into one sequence.
ModelMiniMax H3 Max
- 05
Finishing
Outside the graph: upscaled in Topaz, then sound from ElevenLabs. MiniMax makes sound too, but clip by clip, so it gives away the cuts. ElevenLabs made the effects, ambience and music run continuously across the whole sequence.
ToolsTopaz, ElevenLabs
Keyframes, before and after
The original Midjourney frame on the left, the edited keyframe the shot was animated from on the right.
Keyframe 01Extra third wing removed, legs fixed to match the sheet
Keyframe 02Broken antenna reconnected
Keyframe 04Pollen added
Keyframe 05Bee seen from behind as it reaches the hive, pollen added
Keyframe 06Honeycomb made consistent, leg added, pollen added
Keyframe 07Bow added, pink nectar turned golden honey
Keyframe 08Honey poured from a real honeycomb, bee made smaller
Keyframe 09Bee added, jar lid fixed to sit on top instead of inside
Keyframe 10Bee added, jar lids fixed to sit on top instead of inside
