Studio Console — Spore Animation Studio

MATRIX — video type × style

11 video types × 13 styles. Cell color: green=ships, yellow=MVP, gray=planned.

	cel_shaded	claymation	comic_halftone	mushroom_institute	painterly_van_gogh	painterly_watercolor	paper_cutout	photoreal_3d	pixel_art_warm	vector_flat	voxel_blocks	pixel_pillow	passthrough_image
news_report
character_intro
shorts_brainrot
comparison_review
recipe_short
react_video
silent_film
top_n_list
unboxing
before_after
tier_list
music_video_parallel
editorial_cartoon
explainer
documentary
video_essay
feature_film

AGENT — orchestrate the studio with Claude

Type a brief in plain English. The agent (Claude Opus 4.7, adaptive thinking) plans, decides cast/scene/style, calls compose_project + render_project, and watches the render. Brain = LLM tokens. Body = procedural CPU. Zero neural inference for visual content. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY not set; agent will refuse to start.

Mode:

PROJECTS

Render compute runs on remote. Toggle:

Before / After: The newsroom desk after deploying the studio ? 11 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

Birkin vs Constance comparison_review 19 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

Chip Tariffs news_report 5 seg · cast: editor_prime, spore_oracle, reporter_field, reporter_tech

YAML

The Multiplane ? 5 seg · cast: spore_oracle

YAML

Hands ? 4 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

Why Procedural Wins ? 5 seg · cast: reporter_tech

YAML

Spore Choir ? 4 seg · cast: spore_oracle, reporter_field

YAML

Mycelial Risotto recipe_short 9 seg · cast: spore_oracle

YAML

Meet The Spore Oracle character_intro 5 seg · cast: spore_oracle

YAML

Reacting to The newest AI video model demo react_video 8 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

3 AM Shoreline Drop shorts_brainrot 4 seg · cast: editor_prime, spore_oracle, reporter_field, reporter_tech

YAML

Tier list: cinematic depth techniques ? 7 seg · cast: spore_oracle

YAML

Top 5 AI Video Models of 2026 ? 7 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

Unboxing: Mycelial Field Kit ? 8 seg · cast: reporter_field

YAML

Composition Without Explanation ? 5 seg · cast: editor_prime

YAML

Procedural Cast Smoke news_report 5 seg · cast: editor_prime, spore_oracle, reporter_field, reporter_tech

YAML

STYLES

Render backends and their compatible style YAMLs.

Cel Shaded

mvp

no sample yet

Anime / cartoon register. Flat shading with 6-8 color bands per region, thick black ink-line outlines, mild Gaussian smoothing, slight satur…

Claymation

mvp

no sample yet

Stop-motion clay register. Subsurface-color shift toward warm magenta- orange (clay scattering), ~10-band posterization (stop-motion frame c…

Comic Halftone

mvp

no sample yet

Classic comic-book register. Ben-Day dot patterns for shaded mid-tones (dot size scales with local luminance — bigger dots in darker areas),…

Mushroom Institute

planned

no sample yet

Pixel art, Stardew-lineage, pulled toward vellum and mycelial damp-earth. Every character carries one mushroom-coded signifier — spore vial,…

Painterly — Van Gogh

mvp

no sample yet

Post-Impressionist painterly register. Heavier saturation than watercolor's wash, visible directional brush strokes oriented to local image …

Painterly Watercolor

mvp

no sample yet

Soft watercolor wash with cream-paper background, banded color washes, light edge bleed, and paper-fiber grain. Aimed at the Sunday Review r…

Paper Cutout

mvp

no sample yet

Hard-edged layered cutout register. Each color region renders as a distinct paper tier with offset drop shadow, simulating physical cutouts …

Photoreal 3D

mvp

no sample yet

Physically-based 3D render via Cycles path tracing. Each character receives a Principled BSDF material with realistic subsurface scattering …

Pixel Art (Warm Institute)

planned

no sample yet

Pixel art in the Stardew Valley lineage, pulled toward vellum and parchment rather than bright farm-game. Warm ambient palette, soft directi…

Vector Flat

mvp

no sample yet

Editorial-illustration register. Aggressive color quantization (~8-12 dominant tones), median-smoothed regions, dark outline on color-region…

Voxel / Lego

mvp

no sample yet

Lego / Minecraft register. Each scene downsampled to a coarse grid; each grid cell rendered as a small 3D-looking cube with top highlight, r…

Pixel Pillow

green

no sample yet

Canonical 2D pixel pipeline. Implementation lives in tv/silent_film.py + tv/silent_film_parallel.py + tv/compose.py + tv/studio/render_proje…

Passthrough Image

planned

no sample yet

Direct frame-to-frame passthrough for real photos, stock footage, user camera.

CAST — 56 characters

4 originals · 26 alphabet citizens · 26 letter-forms

spore_oracle

original

editor_prime

original

reporter_field

original

reporter_tech

original

letter_a

alphabet_humanoid

letter_b

alphabet_humanoid

letter_c

alphabet_humanoid

letter_d

alphabet_humanoid

letter_e

alphabet_humanoid

letter_f

alphabet_humanoid

letter_g

alphabet_humanoid

letter_h

alphabet_humanoid

letter_i

alphabet_humanoid

letter_j

alphabet_humanoid

letter_k

alphabet_humanoid

letter_l

alphabet_humanoid

letter_m

alphabet_humanoid

letter_n

alphabet_humanoid

letter_o

alphabet_humanoid

letter_p

alphabet_humanoid

letter_q

alphabet_humanoid

letter_r

alphabet_humanoid

letter_s

alphabet_humanoid

letter_t

alphabet_humanoid

letter_u

alphabet_humanoid

letter_v

alphabet_humanoid

letter_w

alphabet_humanoid

letter_x

alphabet_humanoid

letter_y

alphabet_humanoid

letter_z

alphabet_humanoid

letter_a_form

letterform

letter_b_form

letterform

letter_c_form

letterform

letter_d_form

letterform

letter_e_form

letterform

letter_f_form

letterform

letter_g_form

letterform

letter_h_form

letterform

letter_i_form

letterform

letter_j_form

letterform

letter_k_form

letterform

letter_l_form

letterform

letter_m_form

letterform

letter_n_form

letterform

letter_o_form

letterform

letter_p_form

letterform

letter_q_form

letterform

letter_r_form

letterform

letter_s_form

letterform

letter_t_form

letterform

letter_u_form

letterform

letter_v_form

letterform

letter_w_form

letterform

letter_x_form

letterform

letter_y_form

letterform

letter_z_form

letterform

RECENT OUTPUTS

17 latest renders / panels in tv/output/

photoreal_smoke.png

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tier4_smoke_v13.mp4

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tier4_smoke_v12.mp4

1592 KB

tier4_smoke_v10_clean.mp4

1316 KB

tier4_smoke_v10.mp4

1317 KB

tier4_smoke_v9.mp4

1337 KB

tier4_smoke_v8.mp4

1391 KB

tier4_smoke_v7.mp4

1397 KB

tier4_smoke_v6.mp4

1501 KB

tier4_smoke_v5.mp4

1341 KB

tier4_smoke_v4.mp4

1321 KB

tier4_smoke_v3.mp4

1326 KB

tier4_smoke.mp4

1335 KB

shoreline_ape_voiced.mp4

48078 KB

shoreline_ape_act1_voiced.mp4

3338 KB

voiced_smoke_test.mp4

2396 KB

shoreline_ape.mp4

24700 KB

DOCS — frame-defining + reference

7 primary documents. Click to read in-place; raw markdown served by the dashboard.

Multiplane Substrate (working paper)

Frame-defining: studio is a procedural authorship surface for the multiplane primitive. Husserl + Disney 1937 + Paper Mario.

Video Template Matrix

V × S × Platform planning. 16 video types × 9 styles. Build sequence.

Alphabet Cast (two-tier)

26 letter-forms (V/H/D/C primitives) + 26 humanoid alphabet citizens.

Parallelism — CPU-not-GPU thesis

The five rules that make every server (Windows, Box A, future boxes) run the same parallel topology. studio.parallel is the canonical helper for new code.

README

Project overview, quickstart, architecture. Refreshed 2026-04-27.

PRICING

Tiers: Creator $29 / Channel $99 / Studio $499 + brain-rot tiers + style packs.

Console SECURITY

13-threat model for the local dashboard. Loopback only. CSRF + Origin + Host validated.

TOOLS — action surfaces

9 entry points. Web tools open in this dashboard; CLI commands shown for SSH / terminal.

web Compose v0.1 — form

Pick video type / cast / scene / style; type script; one Haiku call → project YAML. ~$0.0015 cached per video.
open →
web Compose v0.2 — drag-drop canvas

Drag character thumbs onto SVG scene; y-coord maps to multiplane z-position; placements drive camera_params at render time.
open →
cli Remote render bridge

SSH-orchestrated remote render delegation. rsync up → render remotely → rsync MP4 down. Configure with STUDIO_REMOTE_HOST + friends.
python -m studio.remote_bridge --project <yaml>
cli Voice library overnight

Generate 26 voice profiles + bridge libraries on the remote box overnight (~13hr). Uses STUDIO_REMOTE_* env vars.
ssh "$STUDIO_REMOTE_USER@$STUDIO_REMOTE_HOST" 'cd "$STUDIO_REMOTE_REPO" && python3 -m tv.voice.generate_alphabet_voices --letters all'
cli Photoreal preflight (remote)

One-shot: installs Blender on the configured remote box, downloads 3 Polyhaven HDRIs, runs verification render.
ssh "$STUDIO_REMOTE_USER@$STUDIO_REMOTE_HOST" 'bash -s' < scripts/setup_photoreal_box_a.sh
cli Photoreal scene_builder

Photoreal Cycles render on the configured remote box after preflight. PBR materials + HDRI lighting + scene composition.
ssh "$STUDIO_REMOTE_USER@$STUDIO_REMOTE_HOST" 'cd "$STUDIO_REMOTE_REPO" && python3 -m backends.blender_headless.scene_builder --character tv/characters/spore_oracle.yaml --scene mushroom_grove --out tv/output/oracle_photoreal.png'
cli Multi-aspect platform variants

Emit per-platform aspect variants (TikTok 9:16, IG 4:5, square 1:1, YouTube 16:9) in parallel.
python -m tv.multi_aspect --input <mp4> --output-dir <dir> --platforms tiktok,youtube
cli SRT subtitle export

Generate SRT subtitle file from a project. Auto-attached to every render.
python -m tv.srt_export --project <yaml> --out <srt>
cli Parallel pipeline benchmark

Measure per-backend parallel speedup. Shows sequential vs N-worker timing.
python -m backends._parallel --bench --module backends.svg_cairo --fn apply_vector_flat

SOURCES — pluggable input modules

6 source modules under sources/. Studio pulls reference material from any of these into renders.

local_file green

Load + validate + cache local images.

web_image green

DuckDuckGo image search MVP, license-filtered, no API key.

requires: duckduckgo-search

internet_archive green

archive.org search + download. Public-domain bias. No API key.

user_camera mvp

OpenCV webcam capture. n frames + warmup.

requires: opencv-python

video_archive green

Local MP4/WebM ingestion. Optional ffmpeg trim/rescale.

audio_track green

Audio file ingestion + librosa beat-grid analysis.

requires: librosa (optional, for beat-grid)

PIPELINE STATUS — runtime

CPU / parallelism / dependency versions. Read fresh on every page load.

CPU cores: 2 (1 workers default)
Parallel pipeline: enabled
Anthropic API key: NOT SET — Compose tab disabled
Compute target: remote (default: local; STUDIO_COMPUTE_TARGET set)
flask: 3.1.3
anthropic: 0.97.0
numpy: 2.2.6

RECENT COMMITS — last 2

Local repo history. Refresh page after a commit to see it here.

606f983 sync v0.1.1 + security fixes from local 12 days ago
90a7d65 v0.1: silent-film pipeline with persistent-character animation 12 days ago

GAPS — what doesn't work / what's planned

Photoreal_3d actual Cycles render mvp
Days 1-5 fully scaffolded (bpy_photoreal + scene_builder + makehuman_bridge + pbr_materials with 25-entry institute-palette PBR library). Days 6-7 = Blender 4.x + Polyhaven HDRIs + actual render. NO MORE CODE WAITS — only the Blender install + 3 HDRI downloads.
Alphabet voice library overnight run mvp
Orchestration script ready (tv/voice/generate_alphabet_voices.py). Run on Box A: `python3 -m tv.voice.generate_alphabet_voices --letters all`. ~13hr overnight. NO MORE CODE WAITS.
Operative letter operator definitions blocked
BLOCKED on user. Cosmetic alphabet ships; semantic version replaces parameter tables when 26 operators arrive.
Brainrot v5 parallelization planned
~3-4h refactor: precompute scheduler state up front (single thread), then dispatch per-frame application across workers. Pattern matches silent_film_parallel. Lower priority — main render loop and post-process backends already parallel.
Public GitHub repo sync + landing site planned
Local master is 20+ commits ahead of public github.com/psiloceyeben/spore-animation-studios. Phase 3 of apparatus plan (sync + sporeanimationstudios.com landing) pending.