I Rebuilt One Lost Garden Scene Three Times - The Generating Was the Cheap Part

There is a corridor in Lost Garden, the dark-fantasy anime series I am building solo, where the main character walks toward a sound she cannot place. Torchlight. Wet stone. Her face was half in shadow. On paper, it is one of the simplest shots in the whole sequence. A character walks down a hall.

I rebuilt that scene three times. Not three takes. Three full rebuilds, across the better part of three weeks. And here is the part nobody tells you when they sell you on AI filmmaking: generating the shots was the fastest, cheapest, least painful thing I did the entire time.

I want to walk through exactly what happened, because the breakdown of where my hours went is the most useful thing I can hand another AI filmmaker. The numbers were not where I expected them.

The scene and the first version.

The corridor sequence is about...

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