Image guidelines
What gets approved, what gets rejected, and why — Reverie's automated image review for public characters.
Every image on a public character — avatar, background, stickers — passes through automated review before it appears in discovery. Private characters skip review (only you see them). This page tells you exactly what we check for, so you can avoid rejections.
Source post: Image review — protecting community quality →
The review is about quality, not morality
Reverie is an adult platform. We accept explicit imagery. What we don't accept is:
- Low-quality images (blur, JPEG artifacts, broken anatomy)
- Wrong art style (photorealistic, sprite art, Disney-style — see below)
- Copyrighted characters from major franchises
- Visible watermarks, text overlays, or artist signatures
- Plain white/solid/transparent backgrounds with no character context
- Game UI screenshots, manga pages, collages
You can ship a character in explicit pose. You can't ship a low-effort one.
The eight review criteria
1. Art style
We accept: illustration-style artwork — anime, manga, Japanese digital art, painterly illustration.
We reject: photorealistic AI generations, Disney-style, sprite art, chibi, doodles, pencil sketches without finishing.
The platform aesthetic is "polished illustration". A great photorealistic character will get rejected even if technically excellent.
2. Character presence
The character must be the main subject. Clearly visible. Significant portion of the frame.
Rejected: backgrounds where the character is a thumbnail, group images where the character isn't identifiable, decorative-only images.
3. Background quality
Accepted: scene backgrounds (room, street, forest), simple gradients with character context, vignettes.
Rejected: plain white, plain black, solid colour, transparent.
A character on a plain white background reads as "stock asset" — even if the character art is excellent.
4. Text and watermarks
Rejected: prominent text, game logos, speech bubbles, promotional taglines, visible artist signatures.
(Yes, the no-artist-signature rule frustrates artists. It's a copyright safety measure — we can't verify ownership of every signature.)
5. Copyright IP
Rejected: clearly recognisable copyrighted characters from major franchises (Marvel, Disney, Nintendo, Square Enix, popular anime/manga).
Accepted: original characters inspired by IP (anime-style protagonist that isn't Goku is fine).
6. Visual clarity
The character's face and body must be clearly visible.
Rejected: heavy blur, severe JPEG compression, obvious upscaling, file corruption, sliver-thin character far from camera.
7. Composition
Accepted: portraits, full body scenes, illustrations, environment shots with character.
Rejected: game covers (text + art), manga pages (panels), collages (multiple images stitched), UI screenshots.
8. Image integrity (AI-generated)
We don't reject for being AI-generated. We do reject for AI-generated images with severe defects:
- Melted or distorted faces
- Extra limbs / wrong digit counts
- Incoherent anatomy
- Heavy artifacting
Most modern image models pass cleanly. If yours doesn't, regenerate before uploading.
What happens if your image is rejected
You get instant automated feedback with the specific reason. The character itself isn't rejected — only the image. You can upload a different image and try again immediately.
There's no manual review queue. If you disagree with an automated rejection on a borderline case, contact support — we manually re-check edge cases.
Sticker-specific rules
Stickers follow the same rules with two adjustments:
- Small text inside speech bubbles is okay if it matches the character (e.g. "!!" or "...").
- Plain backgrounds are okay — stickers are meant to overlay, not stand alone.
Background image rules
For character profile backgrounds:
- 1920×1080 minimum recommended
- Same art style and copyright rules apply
- Less strict on character presence (a moody empty room is fine for a background)
Image generation inside Reverie
Reverie uses the Krea 2 model family for image generation and editing. The default route is tuned to produce images that pass review, while mature characters use the mature Krea 2 route. Use it from any image-upload field with a "Generate with AI" button.
Cost: 10,000 credits per standard image, 15,000 credits per mature image, and 30,000 credits for character-consistent generation or editing. Selected-area edits cost the same as whole-image edits.
NSFW images
Allowed on NSFW characters, subject to all rules above plus:
- No real-person likenesses
- No minors (the platform's hard line)
- No non-consensual imagery
- No real-world violence
NSFW images don't surface to users who've kept content filters on.