Research Notes & Journal.
A running log of what we're building, breaking, and shipping inside the studio lab.
Stack Compositor v0.7
Improved hair / fur matte extraction, faster temporal smoothing, and a new node-graph profiler.
Atlas — Character Continuity
Notes on training a character model that survives wardrobe and lighting changes across a 90-day shoot.
Ledger Pipeline 2.0
Full rewrite of asset versioning, with cross-project search and shot-level lineage diffs.
Cinematic AI at Scale
Internal talk on building production-grade AI without breaking the look.
Worldgrid — First Pass
Procedural worldbuilding pilot for a narrative short. What worked, what didn't.
Previz Engine Updates
Refactored the core diffusion step to improve real-time latency across UE 5.5 environments.
Sound Field Experiments
Applying custom foley generative models to early animatics to feel pacing quicker.
Review Loop — Annotation Tools
Added frame-accurate drawing and timestamped voice memos inside our review suite.
The Cost of Synthetic Data
Why we continue to invest in our own proprietary datasets rather than scraping.
Year in Review: 2025
Looking back at the tools we built, the shots we shipped, and what we learned about ML pipelines.
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