Recreating Death Stranding with MiniMax: one creator's character-consistency workflow
MakerOfToys · reddit · 2026-09-12
A Reddit user shares how they put themselves and their cat into a Death Stranding trailer recreation using image gen plus MiniMax, with hard-won workflow lessons:
- Workflow: generate 12 trailer frames one by one (face ref + cat + original frame), then feed each to MiniMax with detailed prompts.
- Lesson 1: Don't pass just a face photo. Newer image models excel at character sheets — generate full multi-angle references (props included) for cross-frame consistency and fewer hallucinations in MiniMax.
- Lesson 2: Pre-plan the whole video and finish all frames before starting video generation, instead of frame-by-frame iteration.
- Observations: The author was impressed by MiniMax's world understanding — a shot of the character smearing cat paw prints wasn't in the source frame, and the cat boxing with both paws showed the model grasps hands as one connected concept.
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