Internal motion design

Use only for explicitly requested recoup-internal work. This namespace is a routing convention, not access control. Work in the selected authorized private project; keep artist media, prompts, customer evidence and generation receipts there. This public skill contains only reusable instructions and original motion helpers.

Establish the direction

Read the project's current brief, approved/rejected decisions, owning product implementation, brand assets and design instructions. Resolve the exact product name, destination and supported workflow from those sources. Do not inherit stale colors, URLs or claims from earlier films. Choose audience, one concrete promise, output dimensions, duration and audio source. Infer routine choices and begin; do not introduce extra approval rounds when the user has already authorized the work.

Read references/gauntlet-loop.md and run its build–critique–revision loop for full films; do not stop at the first render. Read references/generated-assets.md and execute image/video generation for the planned original media. Read references/higgsfield-references.md to select and inspect actual comparison films. Read references/film-direction.md for story, source variety, feature identity and pacing. Read references/engine.md before implementing mixed-media choreography. Scripts and assets ship alongside this skill; resolve their paths from this skill directory, not the project's working directory.

1. Write a compact direction: idea, visual rule, defining behavior, delivery and proof.
2. Inspect two or three relevant reference passages when available. Record what was actually seen and which decision it changes; do not infer official brand rules from a film.
3. Build the hardest handoff with real copy and actual source media before expanding the timeline.
4. Create the planned original image and video assets using available authorized generation tools. Inspect candidates, reject weak takes, and integrate selected outputs into the final render. Reuse approved assets when appropriate; do not silently replace required video generation with animated stills or stop at prompts. Follow references/generated-assets.md for tool discovery, generation, polling, selection and receipts. Keep exact lettering, UI and logos in controlled graphic layers.
5. Compose one focal read per beat. Carry an input or result identity through the action. Preserve footage playback through camera/layout changes.
6. Run fresh-context independent critics against the actual export and inspected reference. Convert their findings and user notes into concrete repairs; regenerate weak sources, rerender and repeat the comparison. Maintain a live progress document and preserve earlier versions. Follow references/gauntlet-loop.md for stopping conditions and honest blocked states.

User notes are part of the production loop