# Midjourney V6

- Date: 2023-12-21
- Type: model
- Credit: Midjourney
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/midjourney-v6

Retrained from scratch. V6 renders legible text inside images for the first time, follows longer and more literal prompts, and over the following months ships the reference-image toolkit that matters most for narrative work: Style Reference (--sref) to lock a look and Character Reference (--cref) to hold a face across shots. Paired with the 2024 image-to-video explosion — Luma, Kling, Runway Gen-3 — V6 is what makes multi-shot AI stories, one character and one style across many frames, actually feasible.

Links:
- Midjourney Docs — Versions: https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32199405667853-Version
- Character Reference: https://updates.midjourney.com/character-refs/
- Style Reference (Docs): https://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32180011136653-Style-Reference
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midjourney

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/midjourney-v6
Era: 2023 · The Cambrian Explosion
Last updated: 2026-09-23