Stable Diffusion / FLUX Expert for Custom Cat Character Generation

**AI Engineer Needed – Custom Cat Image Transformation System (Generative AI)** We are DOKOYO, a premium underwear and swimwear brand with our own production facility. We are developing a new AI-powered personalization experience for our customers. The concept is simple: A customer uploads a photo of their cat, and our system transforms that cat into a DOKOYO-style illustrated character that can be used on our products. **Important: this is NOT a chatbot project and NOT a simple text-to-image project.** We already create our own artwork, backgrounds and compositions. The AI does NOT need to create a complete image from scratch. The main task is: * Take a real cat photo from the customer * Preserve the identity of the cat (face, colors, markings, unique characteristics) * Transform it into our proprietary illustration style * Place the cat in predefined poses/scenes created by our design team * Generate a high-quality image suitable for textile printing (dye sublimation) Example: We have an existing illustration: "A cat lying on its back in a field of flowers" The AI should replace the original cat with the customer's cat while keeping: * the same pose * the same composition * the same style * the same background The final output should be a clean image file that can be used in our production workflow. We are looking for someone experienced with: * Generative AI image models * Stable Diffusion / FLUX * Computer Vision * Image-to-image transformation * Character consistency * LoRA / DreamBooth / ControlNet / IP-Adapter workflows * Python and AI pipelines The first goal is to build a working prototype (MVP). If the prototype is successful, we want to continue developing the system and integrate it into our website. Please include examples of previous work involving: * keeping the identity of a person or animal while changing style/pose * AI character generation * image transformation workflows We are looking for a long-term technical partner, not just a one-time freelancer.