Grid Overlay for reference images
Add an even grid to a character reference in seconds. It helps when a video model such as Seedance turns down a stylised, drawn or AI-generated character of your own as a false positive: the grid gives the picture a clear graphic layer, and references of your own or invented characters are often accepted.
Character ready? Try it in Pipegen’s Video section
Your image never leaves your browser: no upload, no storage, no tracking of the picture. It is drawn and saved on your device.
Use only images you have the rights to — and pictures of real people only with their consent. The model provider’s rules still apply.
How it works
- 01
Open your reference
Drop an image onto the field or pick one — PNG, JPG or WebP. It is opened in your browser and never uploaded.
- 02
Adjust the grid
Start with a preset or set columns, rows, line width, opacity, colour and offset. The preview follows every change.
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Download and use it
Save the result as PNG or JPEG at its original size and use it as the reference image of your video model — in Pipegen, for example, in the Video section.
Why a grid can help
What a grid changes, why the result stays usable, and where its limits are.
Why references get turned down
Video models check reference images before they start. The checks are cautious: a stylised face, an illustration or a character you generated yourself can be taken for a real person and stopped — a false positive, although the character is your own invention.
What the grid changes
Evenly spaced lines lay a clear graphic structure over the picture. Many creators find that references of their own or invented characters are then accepted more reliably. Results depend on the image and the model version, so there is no guarantee.
Why the result stays usable
Generative models read the picture under the lines: pose, outfit, colours and proportions carry over. Start light and thin, and only go denser when you need to — fewer and thinner lines disturb the least.
Good starting points
- Portrait
- Standard 6×6 — white, full opacity
- Full body
- Light 4×4 — white, 70 % opacity
- Light background
- Subtle dark — black, 55 % opacity
- Busy picture
- Dense 10×10 — thin white lines
Go further with Pipegen
Your character, in every shot
A reference image is only the start. Pipegen keeps your character the same across images, videos, series and 3D sets.
- CharactersSave a character once and reference it with @ in any prompt — the same face and outfit in every image and video.Create a character
- ProductionsPlan series and films in seasons, scenes and cuts, with simulated scenes, previs takes and clip videos.Start a production
- SetsTurn an image or a 360° panorama into a 3D world and film every angle in the same place and light.Build a set
- RecastPut the movement of any video onto your character — one reference video, one image, no prompt.Try Recast