The Lab

Tests, shoot-outs
and honest failures.

Not everything here is a film. The Lab is where the studio tries things, compares tools and figures out why something broke. Every lesson ends up in how the next film is made.

01
Model shoot-out

Same shot, five video models

One keyframe and one prompt, sent to Gen-4.5, Kling 3.0 Pro, Kling O3 Pro, Kling 4 and Seedance 2, then compared frame by frame. Gen-4.5 warped the Titan's head, Seedance cropped the shot, and Kling 4 kept both characters on-model.

The same shot from five AI video models, Kling 4 highlighted
The riseAll five models, side by side.
The findA close character shot, side by side.
What we keptKling 4 for motion. Model choice is tested per shot type, not assumed.
02
Design test

Two image models, one character bible

Sola, the Titan and the desert, each designed twice by Nano Banana Pro and Gen-4 Image from the same written brief. Nano Banana Pro held the 2D anime style and the details (goggles, scarf, the single eye) far more reliably.

Design comparison grid: Nano Banana Pro versus Gen-4 Image
What we keptNano Banana Pro for designs and keyframes. Designs are locked before any animation.
03
Consistency test

The robot that turned into another robot

Given only a start frame, a long shot drifts: by the end, the Titan had become a different machine (top row). Giving the model a final frame built from the locked design keeps it on-model the whole way (bottom row).

Start-frame-only generation drifting versus start-and-end-frame generation staying on-model
New ruleLong shots get an end frame generated from the locked design.
04
Failure

Two Solas in one shot

To lead into an existing shot, the image model was given that shot as a reference, and it kept the original Sola while adding a second one sliding down the dune. The fix: generate a clean plate of the location first, then place the character.

A keyframe with a duplicated character next to the clean plate fix
New ruleClean plate first. The keyframe gate now checks for duplicates.
05
Rejected film

The Last Tourist, episode 1

The studio's first fully automated episode: a travel host visiting a valley of dinosaurs, 47 seconds, generated end to end. It ran. It wasn't good. The picture was soft, the creatures morphed, the host's mouth moved when he wasn't speaking and he went off-model in wide shots. It was rejected and never posted.

Version 2 ยท rejectedShown as-is, problems included.
Frame grid from The Last Tourist test
Every shot, sampledHow the problems were found.
What changedThis failure is why the studio now works shot by shot, with a keyframe gate, one reference per shot and a written quality checklist.

More experiments are posted
as they happen.