Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27.md
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not lock the exact Reading Nook rendering. The next style experiment should
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condition on an approved image reference or test a dedicated style LoRA.
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+## Prebuilt Anima LoRA tests
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+Three prebuilt adapters were installed in the shared ComfyUI model tree and
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+tested with Anima Base:
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+| Adapter | Type | Test result |
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+| `anima-highres-aesthetic-boost.safetensors` | Official aesthetic enhancer | Improved individual frames but shifted between glossy 3D, painterly rendering, and outlined illustration |
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+| `anima-greg-rutkowski-style.safetensors` | Official painterly style | Polished and attractive, but the children often read older |
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+| `noobai-style-anima-lora-final.safetensors` | Community anime style | Most consistent rendering family across characters, actions, lighting, and environments |
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+### Controlled comparison
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+The `v012` comparison rendered Mia and Henry as baseline plus all three
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+adapters. The `v013` comparison then held source character text, LoRA strength,
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+dimensions, scene seed, and sampling settings constant while testing Aesthetic
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+Boost against NoobAI in four new environments.
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+Common settings:
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+| Field | Value |
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+| Model | `anima-base-v1.0.safetensors` |
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+| Dimensions | 1024 × 1024 |
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+| Steps / CFG | 30 / 4 |
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+| Sampler / scheduler | `er_sde` / `simple` |
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+| LoRA strength | 0.75 |
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+| NoobAI trigger | `noobai-style` |
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+**Result:** Aesthetic Boost is an enhancer rather than a dependable style lock.
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+NoobAI maintained the most coherent look across warm and cool scenes, interior
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+and exterior environments, and Mia and Henry. It became the current prebuilt
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+style-adapter candidate, not an approved final style.
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+### Ten-frame NoobAI consistency batch
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+The `v014` batch rendered four Mia solos, four Henry solos, and two shared
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+scenes with unique seeds and varied camera distances, actions, props, lighting,
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+and environments.
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+Output folder:
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+`LanternClub/NoobAIConsistency`
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+Observed:
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+- The clean anime/storybook rendering remained strong across all ten frames.
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+- Henry was more stable than Mia in face, hair, clothing, and apparent age.
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+- Mia's main identity drift was hairstyle: bangs and side-part details varied.
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+- Pair scenes preserved both children, but requested shared actions could be
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+ ignored or simplified.
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+- Minor failures included malformed music mallets, an extra hair clip,
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+ pseudo-writing, and a broad plain band at the top of one art-studio frame.
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+- A style LoRA improves the rendering family; it does not replace
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+ reference-conditioned character identity.
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## Wan 2.2 14B Turbo I2V tests
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Two full-frame stills were uploaded to separate local ComfyUI instances and
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They do not yet approve motion quality, identity preservation, or Turbo as the
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final production setting.
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+### Six-second square no-prompt batch
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+All ten `v014` NoobAI consistency frames were animated as `v015` with no text
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+| Field | Value |
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+| Source | The ten `v014` NoobAI PNGs |
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+| Dimensions | 512 × 512 |
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+| Frames / fps | 97 / 16 |
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+| Effective container duration | Approximately 6.063 seconds |
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+| Positive prompt | Empty |
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+| Negative prompt | Empty |
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+| CFG | 1 |
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+| Steps / split | 4 / 2 |
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+| Output folder | `LanternClub/WanI2VNoPrompt6s` |
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+| Seed range | `2607271501`–`2607271510` |
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+**Result:** unprompted Wan motion looked attractive and natural overall, and
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+faces, clothing, and style remained reasonably stable. However, the children
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+repeatedly moved their lips as though speaking. Wan also improvised or morphed
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+props, including the apple, paintbrush, and paper pinwheel.
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+### Short no-talking prompt test
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+Six sources were rerun as matched `v016` comparisons using the same first
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+frames, noise seeds, dimensions, duration, and Turbo workflow. The only
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+conditioning change was this exact positive prompt:
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+> Silent natural motion. Preserve the exact mouth shape; no talking or
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+> lip-sync.
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+The negative prompt remained empty. Output folder:
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+`LanternClub/WanI2VNoTalking6s`
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+Prompt IDs:
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+- Mia Art Studio: `dacc8e86-5111-464e-a602-f4359e815b52`
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+- Henry Music Room: `c6923035-e37d-48b4-bd67-cba6743bd7ae`
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+- Mia Museum Butterfly: `33134484-8221-42e0-9ec1-92a712c80740`
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+- Henry Apple Orchard: `9605ed8f-4a93-42b7-8947-dca6df2c882d`
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+- Pair Market: `14be613c-5923-4af3-b7a0-22cccae68f8d`
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+- Pair Cabin Porch: `e5d62451-d258-4e00-adb9-cd2aef9a1c35`
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+**Result:** lip movement persisted. At the current Turbo settings, that short
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+instruction did not override Wan's tendency to infer speech-like facial
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+motion. Do not treat “no talking” as a solved prompt control.
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## Decisions and next experiments
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### Approved
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- The revised everyday Mia and Henry appearances.
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- Mia Reading Nook as the style target.
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+- NoobAI at strength 0.75 as the strongest prebuilt style-consistency adapter
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+ tested so far.
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- The current LightX2V four-step Wan I2V workflow.
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### Next
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2. Build the required turnaround, expression, action, seated, and neutral
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two-shot pack.
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3. Test reference-conditioned character generation.
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-4. Test image-reference style matching or a dedicated style LoRA.
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-5. Compare the same approved first frame in Wan Turbo and the full 20-step
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+4. Test closed-mouth first frames with blank Wan prompts against the existing
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+ open-mouth sources and reused noise seeds.
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+5. Test stronger concise mouth-restraint wording at CFG 1.
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+6. Test the same source and seed at CFG 1.5–2.0, watching for Turbo quality
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+ degradation.
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+7. Compare the same approved first frame in Wan Turbo and the full 20-step
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workflow.
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-6. Review face, hands, accessory continuity, texture crawl, flicker, and motion
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- quality before selecting an I2V workflow.
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+8. Review face, hands, accessory continuity, texture crawl, flicker, prop
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+ morphing, and mouth motion before selecting an I2V workflow.
Decision-Log.md
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| Date | Area | Decision | Status | Affected pages |
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+| 2026-07-27 | Prebuilt style adapter | Continue testing NoobAI at strength 0.75 as the most consistent prebuilt Anima look found so far; do not treat it as a character-identity lock | Candidate | [Prompt Architecture](/Prompt-Architecture), [Workflow Registry](/Workflow-Registry), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) |
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| 2026-07-27 | Character names | Replace the working names Lumi and Pip with **Mia and Henry** | Approved | [Cast](/Cast), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) |
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| 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](/Cast), [Character, Style, and I2V Tests](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27) |
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| 2026-07-27 | Character scale prompting | Do not state a height relationship between Mia and Henry in image prompts | Approved prompting rule | [Cast](/Cast), [Prompt Architecture](/Prompt-Architecture) |
Prompt-Architecture.md
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lock. Exact matching will require a validated style-reference workflow,
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reference conditioning, or a tested style LoRA. See
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[Character, Style, and I2V Tests — 2026-07-27](/Character-Style-and-I2V-Tests-2026-07-27).
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+## Prebuilt LoRA consistency candidate
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+The strongest prebuilt style-consistency result so far used:
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+```yaml
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+model: anima-base-v1.0.safetensors
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+lora: Anima/noobai-style-anima-lora-final.safetensors
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+lora_strength: 0.75
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+trigger: noobai-style
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+dimensions: 1024x1024
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+steps: 30
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+cfg: 4
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+sampler: er_sde
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+scheduler: simple
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+```
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+NoobAI kept a coherent clean anime/storybook look across ten varied frames. It
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+did not lock character identity: Mia's bangs and side part drifted, while Henry
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+was more stable. Treat it as a candidate rendering adapter, not a replacement
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+for character references or an approved final style.
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+## Wan mouth-motion finding
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+Wan 2.2 14B Turbo produced appealing automatic movement from the NoobAI first
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+frames with empty positive and negative prompts, but repeatedly animated the
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+children's lips as if they were speaking.
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+This exact short positive prompt was tested on six matched sources at CFG 1:
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+Lip motion persisted. Closed-mouth source frames, alternative concise wording,
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+slightly higher CFG, and the full non-Turbo workflow remain controlled tests.
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+Do not claim that speech-like mouth motion has been suppressed until one of
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Workflow-Registry.md
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| Character reference pack | Turnaround, expressions, and shared neutral two-shot for Mia and Henry | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `EXP-TLC-001`; exact reference-conditioned workflow TBD | Draft |
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| Character and environment still test | Test visible character anchors, full-bleed composition, and ordinary environments at 3:4 | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `anima-base-v1.0`; 864 × 1152; 30 steps; CFG 4; `er_sde` / `simple` | Verified experiment |
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| Reading Nook style-family test | Reuse one verbatim text style block across ten different scenes | Local ComfyUI / Anima | `EXP-TLC-001`; exact reference conditioning TBD | Text-only family verified; exact lock unproven |
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+| Prebuilt style-LoRA consistency test | Compare style stability across Mia, Henry, shared scenes, actions, lighting, and environments | Local ComfyUI / Anima | NoobAI LoRA at 0.75; trigger `noobai-style`; 1024 × 1024; 30 steps; CFG 4; `er_sde` / `simple`; `v012`–`v014` | NoobAI is the strongest tested prebuilt candidate; identity lock unproven |
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| 12-panel first-frame storyboard | Interpret the reviewed Whisper/Palmier timing with consistent cast, location, varied coverage, and one approved first frame per shot | Local ComfyUI / Anima | Mary–Joseph V1 is the current learning reference | Approved fourth stage |
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-| Image-to-video shot | Animate an approved Anima first frame to its assigned Palmier time range without redesigning it | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B | FP8 high/low-noise models; LightX2V four-step LoRAs; first local tests at 480 × 640, 5 s, 16 fps | Approved fifth stage; Turbo quality comparison pending |
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+| Image-to-video shot | Animate an approved Anima first frame to its assigned Palmier time range without redesigning it | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B | FP8 high/low-noise models; LightX2V four-step LoRAs; latest tests at 512 × 512, 97 frames, 16 fps, CFG 1 | Approved fifth stage; Turbo quality comparison pending |
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+| Wan no-prompt motion test | Measure automatic motion and identity preservation without text conditioning | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B Turbo | Ten `v015` clips; positive and negative empty; source `v014`; seed range `2607271501`–`2607271510` | Attractive automatic motion; speech-like lip motion and prop morphing unresolved |
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+| Wan no-talking prompt test | Test whether a short restraint suppresses speech-like mouth animation | Local ComfyUI / Wan 2.2 14B Turbo | Six matched `v016` clips; exact prompt recorded in experiment page; negative empty; reused `v015` seeds | Restraint failed at CFG 1; further controlled tests required |
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| Episode finishing | Assemble, time, revise, and finalize every selected media element | Palmier | Exact project/template version TBD | Approved interim direction |
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| Asset review | Contact sheets and approved output collections | SmartGallery | TBD | Candidate |
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