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The UGC Influencer Guide: make a creator who looks real.
Design a UGC creator, make one anchor shot, and keep the same face through every camera angle after it. Every prompt sits beside the picture it made. Free, by email.
Chapter 1, free here
Five parts, every prompt.
Every prompt in the guide is built from the same five parts, each in its own colour. Below is Jordan: one anchor shot, then two angles made as edits of it, so the face never changes.
- PersonWho, an exact age, what they wear. Specific beats beautiful.
- Action and placeWhat their hands do, and the real room they do it in.
- CameraWhere the phone is, how high, how much is in frame.
- Phone and lightSay it is a phone photo, and name a real light source.
- Keep it realSkin texture, no filter, and what must not be in the picture.
Jordan: an anchor shot and two edits
1 · New picture · Arm’s-length selfie
Jordan: the anchor
Eye level and arm’s length is how people film themselves. Mouth closed, because a talking video starts from this frame.
Photorealistic vertical smartphone selfie, the opening frame of a user-generated video ad. The subject is a Black American man of about twenty-three with deep brown skin, shoulder-length locs tied back, a bright grin and an athletic build, wearing a heather-grey crewneck sweatshirt and a thin silver chain. The setting is the driver seat of a parked car with the seatbelt on and daylight through the windshield — the classic car-selfie review. They hold the phone at arm’s length at eye level and look straight into the lens with a relaxed, friendly, about-to-speak expression, mouth closed. Shot on a modern phone front camera: natural light, realistic skin texture with visible pores, slight wide-angle perspective, no beauty filter, no heavy retouching. Head and shoulders to mid-chest in frame, subject centred with a little headroom. An ordinary, fictional person — not a celebrity or a model. No text, no captions, no logos, no watermark, and no phone visible in the frame.
Nano Banana Pro · 9:16
2 · Edit of picture 1 · Friend’s shot, 45°
Jordan: friend’s shot
Someone else took this one, so he reads as a real person with friends, not a face that only exists in selfies.
The same person as in the reference image — identical face, hair, skin tone, build and outfit — in the same room and the same light. Photographed by a friend from a slight angle: body turned about 45 degrees, face in three-quarter view looking toward the camera, waist-up, hands relaxed. Vertical phone photo. Photorealistic, natural phone-camera look, realistic skin texture. No text, no logos, no watermark.
Nano Banana Edit · 9:16
Add the anchor picture as a reference first.
3 · Edit of picture 1 · Product to the lens
Jordan: holding the product
A blank bottle stands in for any product. Swap it for yours by adding your product photo as a second reference.
The same person as in the reference image — identical face, hair, skin tone, build and outfit — in the same room and the same light. Vertical smartphone selfie framing: they hold a plain, unbranded white bottle in one hand beside their face, turned toward the camera, fingers natural, the bottle blank with no label or text. They look into the lens with a relaxed smile. Photorealistic, natural phone-camera look, realistic skin texture. No text, no logos, no watermark.
Nano Banana Edit · 9:16
Add the anchor picture as a reference first.
New in the guide
AI influencers, polished and consistent.
Eight Instagram-style creators, one per niche: fashion, beauty, fitness, travel, luxury, wellness, food and tech. Each is ready in Cast, and the guide shows the prompts that made them. All fictional, all labelled as AI.
Sofia · Milan, Italy
Fashion: the outfit, the street, the light — every day.
Amara · Lagos, Nigeria
Beauty: skin first, then the glow.
Valentina · Medellín, Colombia
Fitness: strong, sunny, and never skipping leg day.
Kirana · Bali, Indonesia
Travel: the villas, the beaches, the places worth the flight.
Noor · Dubai, UAE
Luxury: the hotels, the handbags, the details that last.
Hana · Seoul, South Korea
Wellness: slow mornings, glass skin, matcha.
Madison · Los Angeles, United States
Food and lifestyle: the brunch spots and the recipes worth stealing.
Ananya · Mumbai, India
Tech and style: the gadgets worth it, and how to wear them.
In the full guide
Seven more chapters, by email.
The rest of the method, with every prompt beside the picture it made.
Wanjiru, start to finish
The same method on a different person: a kitchen, a cardigan, three angles.
Where to put the phone
A camera map, and the words that ask for each angle.
Two scenes, shot several ways
Skincare at home and an unboxing, every shot with its prompt.
Which angle for which second
The hook, the demo, the proof and the call to action.
A cast of eight
Eight creators from one anchor prompt, and what changed for each.
The polished AI influencer
The Instagram look — styled, golden light — kept to one face. Sofia and Amara, start to finish.
From photo to video, and the rules
The anchor as a first frame, and what an AI creator must never say.