A couple months ago, I wrote about how design tools are the new design deliverables and built the LukeW Character Maker to illustrate the idea. Since then, people have made over 4,500 characters and I regularly get asked how it stays consistent. I recently updated the image model, error-checking, and prompts, so here's what changed and why. New Image Model Google recently released a new version of their image generation model (Nano Banana 2) and I put it to the test on my Character Maker . The results are noticeably more dynamic and three-dimensional than the previous version. Characters have more depth, better lighting, and more active poses. So I'm now using it as the default model (until Reve 1.5 is available as an API). One of the ways I originally reinforced consistency in my character maker was by checking whether an image generation model's API returned images with the same dimensions as the reference images I sent it.…