Notes

The craft, made legible.

Short writeups on finishing AI footage to a real standard, and the open tools I build along the way. The film pages show the result. These show the thinking, and the work I am happy to put my name on in the open.

Two rows of six headshots. The top row is one woman through neutral, smile, grief, anger, fear, and profile. The bottom row is a different man in every frame.

The Audition

Everyone is fighting to keep an AI face consistent. Almost nobody asks the first question, which is whether the face can act at all.

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A named delivery set side by side, every shape carrying one finish, the subject intact in each.

Delivery Bay

The master is the part everyone talks about. The delivery is the part that actually ships, and it is where the work quietly falls apart.

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The same crop two ways: stretched and soft on the left, mastered and holding on the right.

The Upscale Question

A 4K timeline does not make a 1K frame 4K. Here is what an upscale gives back, and what was never there to give.

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A frame carrying real 35mm grain, finished to look like captured film.

Film Grain

Why AI video reads digital, and what it actually takes to put real 35mm grain back on it.

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Before and after of a generated portrait: dead eyes on the left, living eyes on the right.

Dead Eyes

The first place a generated portrait falls apart is the eyes. Here is what fixing them actually takes.

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