Build log

Creature and chase

Two passages, each about five seconds, each one continuous take. A hand rests on a raptor's snout. Two riders collide beside a moving train. Both shots are built around the moment of physical contact, which is where generated motion usually breaks.

This is a Keyframe0 studio original, produced end to end in-house.

The finished work record presents the passages, held frame, facts, decisions, and handoff.

What had to exist

Two readable actions, each carried by one unbroken take. In the first, a hand rests on a raptor's snout and the animal holds still under it. In the second, two riders collide beside a moving train and the impact lands with weight.

Contact between moving things is where generated motion usually breaks. So each passage is built to hold its contact honestly, and the record describes exactly that: two shots that turn on the moment things touch.

Studio work. A hand resting on a raptor's snout, the moment the first passage is built around.
Studio work. A hand resting on a raptor's snout, the moment the first passage is built around.

The contact decision

Build the shot around the moment of contact and let the rest serve it. The camera stays close enough to read weight and far enough to read the world. Those two boundaries come from the same decision. The contact has to read as carried weight, and the setting has to stay legible around it, so neither framing choice gets to win by itself.

One take per passage

Each passage holds a single continuous take of about five seconds. Cutting around a motion the model cannot sustain would hide the break, and the record would no longer describe what a viewer actually sees. Holding the take is the proof that the contact holds.

That is also why there are two passages and not a longer sequence. Five seconds of honest contact, twice, says more than twenty seconds assembled from fragments.

Two deliveries from one passage

The desktop delivery runs 1920 wide. The vertical delivery runs 720 by 1280. Both are cut from the same passage as filmed, not reframed after the fact. The compositions were planned for both surfaces, so the vertical cut is a delivery, not a crop compromise.

A poster frame ships for each passage, covering the silent and reduced-motion paths where the video itself does not play.

What shipped

The handoff contains:

  • The desktop delivery at 1920 wide, MP4
  • The vertical delivery at 720 by 1280, MP4
  • A poster frame per passage for the silent and reduced-motion paths

See the complete motion capability for films, characters, environments, cutdowns, crops, poster frames, and held frames. Work with us to send the moment, audience, publishing surfaces, source material, rights, and required formats in writing.

Studio work. Two riders collide beside the moving train, the second passage's moment of contact.
Studio work. Two riders collide beside the moving train, the second passage's moment of contact.

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