Film Style Library

Why this stage exists

Words such as “animated,” “cinematic,” and “realistic” leave too many production decisions open. Line weight, material response, lighting, motion cadence, lens behavior, and surface detail can produce very different results inside the same label. A small visual comparison usually resolves that ambiguity faster than another paragraph of adjectives.

The first locked asset also influences every later reference. If its visual language is wrong, characters, locations, props, and shots inherit the mismatch. Lock style before producing those assets.

What this Skill does

1. Inspect the request, existing project, and any user-supplied references.
2. Infer a likely direction when the evidence is already strong; otherwise compare three or four relevant directions.
3. Lock the selected direction in films/<slug>/style.json.
4. Emit four fields every downstream Skill can reuse:
   • style_header for image and video prompts;
   • sheet_modifier for character, location, and prop sheets;
   • negative_block for the main forms of visual drift;
   • model_routing for tools actually available in the project.
5. Check every later reference against the lock before it enters generation.