Working notes from real pipeline tests. Not think pieces. Every entry documents something I actually built, shot, or cut with AI in the loop, what worked, what broke, and what it means for how work gets made.
Casting, art directing, and shooting a photoreal athlete who does not exist. Part one: the casting session and the six angle turnaround, with the misses left in.
Twenty years of bid sheets, then a film with no shoot days and no crew. Real generation counts, real credit costs, and the line items the hype never mentions.
The full Bo Knows Chapter One case study, with the film. Boards, plates, motion, finish, and the ledger of what the tools replaced versus what they never will.
Casting a voice the way you cast a face. Six songs, one microphone, every processor switched off, and the one mistake that would poison the dataset forever.
The full shot pack generated in volume on a local GPU rig, and whether the face holds at frame forty.