Production Pipeline

Locking a 1958 Look, Frame by Frame

Style consistency is a different problem from character consistency - the whole frame has to agree with itself, every shot. Here's how the period look got held from script to final grade.

CONCEPT · DAN KOSCIELAK SCRIPT · GROK CHARACTER DESIGN · GROK IMAGINE KEYFRAMES · NANO BANANA FRAME ALIGNMENT · OPENCV GENERATION · MINIMAX H3 FL2VA, COMFY CLOUD ASSEMBLY · DAVINCI RESOLVE The concept Dan's idea - a pastiche 1958 school film; no ideation tool used Script + dialogue - Grok Timestamped scientist/boy lines, written into H3's structured prompt format Grok Imagine - group shots Scientist, boy, and girl together, 3-6 passes Nano Banana - lock characters Locks the three leads and generates the matched first & last frame stills CHARACTERS + KEYFRAMES LOCKED Re-align frame pair - OpenCV ORB feature match on the masked background, affine warp + centre-crop both to 1344×768 Structured FL2VA prompt - MiniMax H3 Alignment line + soundscape + timestamped dialogue 362 FRAMES · 15.08s · COMFY CLOUD Turbo validation run, then a turbo-off hero run, same seed Import + cut six shots + the hero clip Custom 1958 B&W LUT + per-clip CDL match Fusion film-break transition + Film Damage dust MASTER EXPORT
The route we ran. Because the goal was a period look holding steady across every shot rather than one character holding steady across a runtime, two extra steps earn their keep: the OpenCV re-alignment pass that locks the first/last frame pair to the same background geometry, and the custom 1958 black-and-white LUT plus per-clip CDL match that pulls all six MiniMax shots to one grade before the film-break transition and dust go on. Gold marks the locking, batch, and export milestones.
asset / step hand-off locking, batch, or export milestone
Grok
Writes the script - the timestamped scientist/boy dialogue.
Grok Imagine
Iterates group shots of the three leads together, 3-6 passes.
Nano Banana
Locks the character designs and generates the matched first & last frame stills.
OpenCV
ORB feature match + affine warp to re-align the frame pair to the same 1344×768 background.
MiniMax H3 · FL2VA
First + last frame to video+audio, Comfy Cloud. 362 frames, 15.08s, structured prompt with timestamped dialogue.
DaVinci Resolve
Cuts the six shots together, applies a custom 1958 B&W LUT and per-clip CDL match, and builds the film-break transition and dust in Fusion.