Studio

Studio is a production workspace for DNA-driven AI animation — not a timeline editor. I cut a finished one-minute clip from about eight hours of thrash down to roughly two by treating cast continuity as a product problem, not a prompting habit.

I designed and built it end to end (Next.js, Runware for Nano Banana / Seedance, agent chat) while directing original series work through it — including Felt The Music, visible in the workspace screenshot.

Saving and reusing good prompts helps a little, then falls apart when the same character needs a different outfit, or the same location at night. A template doesn’t carry visual identity. Fal playgrounds made the gap obvious: every one-off restarted from scratch.

For a series you need characters and locations as entities with variants, a composer that locks references, and a path from cheap drafts to final clips — without reinventing the cast every take.

Landed on entities with variants as first-class assets. Characters, locations, and props sit in the library; Fred can have a default look and a cowboy variant. Drop him into Composer, switch the variant — don’t hunt for the still. Character sheets lock the look.

Studio stays hands-on for building: pick assets, send to Composer, generate. The agent sits beside that path for questions, planning, and drafting — “group this cast at the park,” or “Fred skydiving with a parachute” — with the same library and show bible underneath. Two models, one ecosystem.

Taste lives as data: show DNA and asset DNA are the style bible. Felt The Music keeps a coherent felted-character world across the library — direction becomes a system you browse and reuse, not only a prompt skill.

An internal tool I’m running to ship a YouTube series faster. Validation is thin on purpose: it’s me grinding the workflow to get episodes out. The IA is the risk I’d watch closest with a new user — if they hesitate or take a wrong path, the fix is restructuring, not hover tips.