Decision Log
Use this page for decisions that change production canon. Newest entries go first.
| Date | Area | Decision | Status | Affected pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-27 | Character names | Replace the working names Lumi and Pip with Mia and Henry | Approved | Cast, Character, Style, and I2V Tests |
| 2026-07-27 | Character direction | Test Mia and Henry as familiar, everyday children with simpler hair, clothing, and facial anchors; keep accessories secondary until reference-guided continuity is proven | Candidate visual direction | Cast, Character, Style, and I2V Tests |
| 2026-07-27 | Character scale prompting | Do not state a height relationship between Mia and Henry in image prompts | Approved prompting rule | Cast, Prompt Architecture |
| 2026-07-27 | Image composition | Require a single continuous full-bleed frame; reject solid borders, blank margins, vignettes, isolated dioramas, split panels, and duplicated scenes | Approved prompting and review rule | Prompt Architecture, Character, Style, and I2V Tests |
| 2026-07-27 | Style direction | Use the Mia Reading Nook image as the current style target; treat text-only style matching as a family resemblance rather than an exact lock | Candidate | Prompt Architecture, Character, Style, and I2V Tests |
| 2026-07-27 | Wan I2V acceleration | Continue evaluating Wan 2.2 14B I2V with the LightX2V high- and low-noise four-step LoRAs; the first two local tests proved technical execution only | Candidate workflow | Workflow Registry, Character, Style, and I2V Tests |
| 2026-07-26 | Season 01 music | Use an acoustic-storybook-adventure album identity, six rotating song families, fixed series signatures, and varied episode composition across the A–Z music map | Approved direction | Season 01 — Music Bible, Music and Voices |
| 2026-07-26 | Shot timing | Import the finished Suno song into Palmier, transcribe it with Whisper, review the exact timecodes, and derive shot ranges before Anima storyboarding | Approved | Music and Voices, Visual Pipeline, Episode Template |
| 2026-07-26 | Pipeline order | Suno is always the first media-generation stage; lock its selected audio and timing map before Anima storyboarding, then use Wan and finish in Palmier | Approved | Music and Voices, Visual Pipeline, Little Lanterns Format |
| 2026-07-26 | Series structure | Every Little Lanterns season contains 26 A–Z episodes; Alphabet Adventures is the recurring series format rather than a standalone generic season theme | Approved | Little Lanterns, Seasons |
| 2026-07-26 | Season 01 slate | Adopt the supplied A–Z titles and loglines as the complete candidate episode slate for Alphabet Adventures | Candidate | Season 01 — Alphabet Adventures |
| 2026-07-26 | Season architecture | Evaluate 26 alphabet-season themes against visual variety and production yield; develop Alphabet Adventures, Animal, Tasty, Music, and Bible as the proposed first five | Candidate | Seasons |
| 2026-07-26 | Media finishing | Finalize all selected episode media in Palmier for now; keep SmartGallery as the review and DAM layer | Approved interim | Visual Pipeline, Asset Review, Workflow Registry |
| 2026-07-26 | Initial production pipeline | Generate one approved Anima first frame per storyboard shot, animate it with local Wan 2.2 14B image-to-video, and generate music plus narration with Suno | Superseded ordering | Visual Pipeline, Music and Voices, Workflow Registry |
| 2026-07-26 | Production bible | Repurpose the deprecated FaithOriginals.Media build wiki as The Lantern Club Production Bible | Approved | Home |
| 2026-07-26 | Series engine | Develop Little Lanterns as recurring alphabet seasons with Mia and Henry | Candidate | Little Lanterns, Seasons |
| 2026-07-26 | Episode format | Test a 4–5 minute Find → Meet → Help → Discover → Sing → Shine structure | Candidate | Little Lanterns Format |
| 2026-07-26 | Image format | Use 864 × 1152 as the 3:4 portrait storyboard baseline | Candidate | Visual Pipeline |
| 2026-07-26 | Prompting | Store human-readable structured prompts and compile model-specific text | Candidate | Prompt Architecture |
Entry rule
A decision should say what changed, whether it is Candidate or Approved, and which source pages now carry the rule. Do not use the log as a substitute for updating those pages.