THE SYSTEM

Multi-agent pipelines, assembled for each project, that check every shot against the film’s own visual bible.

Built the way systems are built in a bank: every check written down, every call logged, every revision controlled — and a person deciding at every turn that matters.

AT A GLANCE · READ OFF THE SYSTEM ITSELF

Software: Direction — the studio's own, built for this
The visual bible: 26 parameters in 5 bands, set per world
Agents: 18, each instruction documented word for word
Analyse: Gemini — each verdict as JSON, to a schema
Generate: GPT Image 2.5 — grade, finish, place, render
The research: To develop the pipeline: 1,332 model calls, most of them tests — which model does what best, how the agents check each other
Planning: Blender 5.2 — camera, lens, timing, focus
Finish: Python filters — grain, halation, haze, black point
Cut, sound: Premiere Pro, driven by scripts

The two palettes the film uses, as Direction shows them to the analyst: his soul (base 88%, accents 12%) and the light souls (base 86%, accents 14%)

His studio, accepted by the verifier on its second try

CHAR-03 — the character map the pipeline made

KEY-02 — the keyframe posed from the Blender blocking

01 · TWO PALETTESThe visual bibleFive palettes were registered for the project; the film uses two.

02 · ROUNDS, RETRIESHarmonised, checkedThe stills are graded in rounds, and a try the verifier fails is regenerated.

03 · CHAR-01 → 03One face, mappedOne chosen face becomes the character map every angle is posed against.

04 · BLENDER-16 → KEY-02Keyframes from the previsEach keyframe is posed from the Blender camera, then analysed and edited.

05 · PAIR-07Finishing, by codeGrain, halation and haze are applied by filters, identically on every shot.

06 · SYS-01The previs drives the filmThe video models are given the animatic and the keyframes, shot by shot.

DIRECTION

The studio's own software

The visual bible: parameters down, worlds across · 2026

The film’s visual bible, written before a frame is made.

YOU THINK IT'S SIMPLESHOT 1.11 · 25 STEPS · SHEET 1/1

You think it’s simple: one prompt, one picture.

One call?

Shot: 1.11
World: The light souls
Steps: 25
Sheet: 1/1
Drawn: truemanity studio

ONE FRAME, FROM THE START · SHOT 1.11~25 STEPS · FOUR ROLES · ONE PERSON DECIDES

You think a frame like ours is one prompt and one model. Here is one frame of the film, from the palette to the cut.

Each step drawn by its role, on its own line: the line moves between them like a melody, and where a try and its check come together they sound as one chord. The images hang under the steps that made them.

The shape of the process, not its recipes: each step is named by its role. Midjourney, Blender and a person's decisions are drawn dashed — they are outside the logged model calls.

THE SAME FRAME'S KEYFRAME · AGENT BY AGENTCALL 15 / 15

PLACEMENTGPT IMAGE
STRUCTURE VALIDATORGEMINI
HALLUCINATION CHECKERGEMINI
POSE TRANSFORMERGPT IMAGE
NORMALISATION ANALYSTGEMINI
COLOUR READERGEMINI
NORMALISATION EDITORGPT IMAGE
THE DIRECTORA PERSON

PLACED
TRY 1 · PICKED
TRY 2
TRY 3
PASS 1
PASS 2 · IN THE FILM

NAMES ONLY · WHAT EACH AGENT LOOKS FOR, ITS PROMPTS AND ITS THRESHOLDS STAY THE STUDIO'STHE RUN AS RECORDED · LAB/ANGLE 20261020210244

THE SAME FRAME · ITS TWELVE REAL IMAGESTHE DATUM LINE TO THE FRAME IN THE FILM · THE TRIES THAT WENT NOWHERE IN GREY

The world's pass made the sleeve white, consistent with the light souls; the film keeps it black — the director's call (◆).

Shot 1.05b · two right handsTHE DIRECTOR'S FIX · NOT IN THE FILM

Shot 1.05b — try 1 · picked, flagged: the bow held by a second right hand — Try 1 · picked, flagged
the bow held by a second right hand

Try 1 · picked, flagged
the bow held by a second right hand

Shot 1.05b — the fix · rejected: the model's fix: still a right hand, caught again — The fix · rejected
the model's fix: still a right hand, caught again

Shot 1.05b — the director's fix · accepted: a left hand round the grip; the check passed — The director's fix · accepted
a left hand round the grip; the check passed

The director's fix · accepted
a left hand round the grip; the check passed

The check flagged it on every pass — three tries, two passes and a fix: a right hand where the left should hold the bow. The model's fixes did not take; the director's did, and the check passed. That is why a person decides.

Before the steps, one complete world: every stage each frame went through, on one wall.

Every picture on the wall is from the record: a red × is a try the check rejected, a red ◆ is the director’s pick. Press any frame to open its chain, step by step.

Soul · light

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Format and optics

Aspect ratio

Film emulation / sensor

Lens character

Sensor format

Lens generation

Focal length35–50 mm

Depth of field (T-stop)T1.4 – T2.0

Light and colour

Colour space

Halation

Black point / shadow densityLifted / milky

Highlight roll-off

Lighting logic

Volumetric density

Colour paletteThe light souls

Lighting schemeNatural practical, high key

Light breaking throughEverywhere

Production design

Level of realism

Materials and textureBare white plaster, white-painted wood

Patina and wear

Fabric behaviour

Framing and geometryStrong asymmetry with a level horizon

Post-processing and texture

Micro-contrast / clarity

Movement and camera

Camera persona

Camera height

Motion blur (shutter)

Camera movementLocked off, or a slow push in

Made of our own harmonised stills, uploaded to Midjourney as its moodboard.

ACT I · THE WORLDSTEPS 01 – 03 · WHAT RUNS, WHAT IT CHECKS, WHAT IT GIVES

HIS SOUL · HIS STUDIO · BASE 88%ACCENT 12%

THE LIGHT SOULS · THE WHITE ARCHERS' ROOMS · BASE 86%ACCENTS 14%

FIVE PALETTES REGISTERED FOR THE PROJECT · THESE TWO ARE THE FILM'S · HIS PALETTE TURNED INSIDE OUT

01 · A PERSON DECIDES

The visual bible

Every check after it is a check against the visual bible. So you sign off one document, not a thousand frames, and every agent, model and person works to it.

Who: The director, with you
Consistency: Optics · light · design · post · motion — 26 parameters, per world
Each one: A role for the agents: checked, context, or skipped with a reason
Read by: Every agent after it
Measured: The palette, as shares of the frame

02 · SIX PASSES, ONE WORLD

Harmonised, checked

Generations do not match on their own. A world reads as one place only when every frame follows the same visual bible — so the stills are reviewed together, graded together, and checked one by one.

Direction, the references board of Bow and Arrow: the stills sorted by world, a column for each world — **THE REFERENCES BOARD** · the stills, sorted by worldDIRECTION · REAL STATE · RECORDED 4 NOV 2026

The second collage of the soul-dark pass, before its grade — the agents see the stills of a world together, numberedthe run of 19 October · soul-dark

The same collage after its grade — the agents see the stills of a world together, numberedthe run of 19 October · soul-dark

01 · NO MODELCollagesUp to four stills, numbered

02 · GEMINIAnalystA verdict on every parameter, for every still

03 · GEMINI · CODEColour agentThe still's palette against the world's; the distances measured by code (OKLab ΔE)

04 · GPT IMAGECollage gradeThe grade edits only, so the stills stay consistent

05 · GPT IMAGEFinishEach original at full size, the scene first

06 · GEMINIVerifierStill the scene? Consistent with the visual bible? If not, one more finish; two at most

One still, its triesHIS SOUL · A MOODBOARD STILL · TRY 1 REJECTED BY THE CHECK

His studio — midjourney: half the room a glowing white void — Midjourney
half the room a glowing white void

His studio — try 1 · rejected: by the check — tried again — Try 1 · rejected
by the check — tried again

His studio — try 2 · accepted: his black studio, one shaft of light — Try 2 · accepted
his black studio, one shaft of light

THE PALETTE AT WORK · THE WHITE ROOMTHE PALETTE IN THE PROMPTS · A CONSISTENT WORLD OUT

01The paletteTHE LIGHT SOULS

#F5F6F6neutral white86%#B51212blood red12%#0B0B0Cblack2%

02Its palette, in the promptMIDJOURNEY · THE REAL CLAUSES

one long smooth neutral white #F5F6F6 plaster wall with only a few small white notepad sheets pinned on it

two marked in blood red #B51212

a blood red #B51212 ribbon tied to the latch of a tall window that fills the room with soft clean white daylight

a white-painted longbow with a blood red #B51212 string leaning against the wall

03What came backAS THE COLOUR AGENT READ IT

The Midjourney still: a stained, warm warehouse

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neutral white · sheet / read

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blood red · sheet / read

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black · sheet / read

ITS READING · 65% OF THE FRAME OFF THE PALETTE

04Pulled to the paletteTHE GRADE

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grungy walls

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left poster and bow

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right poster

05AcceptedON ITS SECOND TRY

The colour agent is a model too: its reading is shown as its reading; the distances behind the verdict are measured by code. From 19 October the prompts were made short on purpose — the moodboard, made of our own harmonised stills, carries the palette, and the palette keeps working downstream, where every still is held to them.

The same still, its triesTHE LIGHT SOULS · A MOODBOARD STILL · TRY 1 REJECTED BY THE CHECK

The white room — midjourney: a stained, warm warehouse — Midjourney
a stained, warm warehouse

The white room — try 1 · rejected: by the check — tried again — Try 1 · rejected
by the check — tried again

The white room — try 2 · accepted: a bare white room — Try 2 · accepted
a bare white room

CHAR-01 — the director's hand-made portrait of the dark archer

CHAR-03 — the character map the pipeline made from it

CHAR-01 · the chosen face, by handCHAR-03 · the map, every angle

03 · THE ASSETS

One face, mapped

Character consistency means one face in every angle and every world. So the face is registered once, as a character map, and every frame is made and analysed against it.

From: The face you and the director choose
Made: A character map: the turns, the details, the props
Checked: Each frame's face against its map, detail by detail, the hands traced
Never: An asset generated by a model — a missing one is a Midjourney prompt, and a stop

ACT II – III · THE PREVIS AND THE FILMSTEPS 04 – 06

BLENDER-16 — shot 1.21 in the Blender blocking — SHOT 1.21 · 65 MM · F/1.8the same camera, the pose from the previs

KEY-02 — the keyframe posed from it — SHOT 1.21 · 65 MM · F/1.8the same camera, the pose from the previs

04 · BLENDER · AGENTS

Keyframes from the previs

The camera and the pose are decided, not hoped for. Blocking in Blender fixes the lens, the framing and the timing before a single frame is generated.

01: Blocking · Blender — camera, lens, framing, timing; the animatic is the blueprint
02: Storyboard · GPT Image — frame 1 carried into Blender's angles: the camera, never the look
03: Validator · Gemini — per panel: the camera against its hint, what is there, the action, continuity, what was invented
04: Render · GPT Image — each frame alone, at full size; the panel gives the structure, frame 1 the look

WHAT THE CHECKS CAUGHT · ON THE FILM'S OWN SHOTSEACH ONE LOOKED AT BY EYE · "IN THE FILM" ONLY WHERE IT GOT THERE

Shot 1.07 · a stranger's shadowIN THE FILM, THROUGH ITS LINEAGE

Shot 1.07 — try 3 · rejected: a figure's shadow on the wall, arms out — nobody in the frame casts it — Try 3 · rejected
a figure's shadow on the wall, arms out — nobody in the frame casts it

Try 3 · rejected
a figure's shadow on the wall, arms out — nobody in the frame casts it

Shot 1.07 — from try 1 · in the film: the chain went on from try 1; its final is the shot — From try 1 · in the film
the chain went on from try 1; its final is the shot

Shot 1.06 · the glassesCAUGHT TWICE · PASSED THE CHECK

Shot 1.06 — placed · rejected: the glasses at his mouth, both arms pointing up — Placed · rejected
the glasses at his mouth, both arms pointing up

Placed · rejected
the glasses at his mouth, both arms pointing up

Shot 1.06 — edit 2 · rejected: the same fault, caught again — Edit 2 · rejected
the same fault, caught again

Shot 1.06 — edit 3 · accepted: glasses as glasses are — Edit 3 · accepted
glasses as glasses are

Shot 1.13 · a warm castTHE DIRECTOR'S PICK IN THE LAB · NOT IN THE FILM

Shot 1.13 — try 1 · picked: the input to the pass — Try 1 · picked
the input to the pass

Shot 1.13 — pass 1 · rejected: the whites gone peach, a warm flare at the window — Pass 1 · rejected
the whites gone peach, a warm flare at the window

Shot 1.13 — pass 2 · accepted: neutral whites; the colour flag gone — Pass 2 · accepted
neutral whites; the colour flag gone

PAIR-07 — shot 1.03 as the image model gave it — PAIR-07 · THE MECHANISM · THE OFFICEgrain · halation · haze · blacks

PAIR-07 — the same shot with the finish applied by code — PAIR-07 · THE MECHANISM · THE OFFICEgrain · halation · haze · blacks

05 · PYTHON FILTERS

Finishing, by code

An image model asked for a look redraws the shot. Filters apply the same film-stock emulation to every shot, and redraw nothing.

Colour: From the image model, graded to the visual bible
Finish: Grain, halation, haze, black point — Python filters
Same: On every shot, deterministic
Never: A shot redrawn for its look

BLENDER ABOVE · THE FILM BELOW · IN SYNC

06 · VIDEO · CUT · SOUND

The previs drives the film

Given the animatic and the keyframes, the video model follows the previs — shot for shot, in sync. The edit is then built from a written cut list, so a revision changes the list, not the film.

01: The package · the Blender previs (camera, cut, timing, motion, focus over time), the keyframes, the shots on a timeline
02: Video models · chosen per shot
03: The cut · built from a written cut list; no shot under about 1.5 s
04: Premiere · driven by scripts: ingest, multicam, markers, sound, render