Product animation: a prompt and a reference → finished sequences (Octane or Cycles)

A tested pipeline (Blender 5.2, Octane 31.10, DaVinci Resolve Studio 21.1) written as general principles: every stage says what works, what it measures, the gate before moving on and what the user sees; detail lives in references/. Keep your own worked examples, measurements and tools in a study-notes folder outside the skill and reuse them (see "Keeping the skill alive"). History: references/changelog.md; failures: references/traps.md.

Run it end to end (the one-shot recipe)

Input: a prompt and a reference. Output: graded sequences (Octane or Cycles), review videos in a synced review folder, stills on FigJam. ★ = the user decides; agents stop and wait there. Everything else is gated by measurement and shown as a checkpoint.