Rename or change a saved character

You can change a saved character's name, description, personality and look. Each change saves a new version of the character. Videos you already made keep the version they were made with until you update them.

Change the name or the description

1. Open Characters and select View Details on the character.
2. Select Edit.
3. Change the Name or the Description, then select Save.

These changes are free. Videos you already made keep the version and the handle they were made with.

Give a character a personality

1. Open the edit page as above.
2. Under Personality, fill in one or both fields:
   • Personality: who they are inside. Their traits, what they want, a flaw. For example: "Brave to a fault. Wants to be first through every door. Hates to admit she is scared."
   • How they talk: their words and rhythm. For example: "Short sentences. Never asks a question. Says 'Easy peasy' when it is not."
3. Select Save. This is free.

New videos use them: the story follows the personality, and the character's lines sound like How they talk. When a character has no voice yet, the voice that is picked for it follows How they talk too. Both fields are optional; an empty field changes nothing.

When you make a character, you can fill the same fields under Personality (optional). The character page shows them when they are filled.

Change the handle

The Handle is the @ word your scripts use for the character. It changes with the name while you type: @Luna becomes @Sophia, or @Sophia2 when you already have an @Sophia.

• To pick your own handle, type it in Handle. Use one word of letters and numbers that starts with a letter, for example @Fox. After that, the handle stays the same when you change the name.
• To rename the character and keep its old handle, change the Name, then select Keep @Luna under the handle.
• A handle must be free: if another of your characters, locations or objects already uses it, the page tells you, and you pick another one. @Narrator is kept for the narrator.
• When the handle changes, the page warns you that scripts with the old handle will not find this character any more. Update those scripts, or keep the old handle.

Select Save. This is free.

Change the look

Open the edit page as above, or select Change look under Character Reference Sheet on the character page. Under Look, choose one way:

• Describe a change: write what should change, for example "a red scarf and shorter hair".
• Redraw: change Appearance and Clothing. The character is drawn again from them.

If the character has no picture yet, only Redraw is there.

Then choose Basic or Premium and select Change look. The price shows on the button. With Premium, you get options: pick one when they are ready, then select Use this look.

Until the new look is ready, your videos use the current look. If the new look cannot be made, nothing changes and your credits come back.

Go back to an earlier version

On the edit page, open Versions and select Restore next to the version you want. Restoring is free.

Use the newer version in a video you already made

1. Open the video in the editor.
2. Open Project settings and select Newer versions.
3. Select Use it here next to the character.

Shots and lines you already made stay as they are. Only the ones you make next use the newer version. A new look has a price, shown on the button. A new name, description, personality or voice is free.

Newer versions shows only when one of the video's characters, locations or objects changed after the video was made.

Remove a character

• To hide it, select the archive icon on its card or on the character page. You can find it later in the Archived tab.
• To delete it for good, select the trash icon on the character page, then Delete permanently. The window shows which projects use the character before you confirm. This frees the old handle, so a new character with the same name can use it. You cannot undo it.