STAGE 05 OF SEVEN / LOOKS
The brief compiles into frames.
A Look is the assembled direction — words, references, Brain, assets — as something you can run.
A brief, its references, and the client Brain compiling into a runnable route
THE ROLE
A Look is the compiled brief. It is what makes a direction runnable instead of re-describable, and every frame it makes belongs to the job that asked for it.
WHAT IT DOES
How it works.
COMPILE
Words, references, Brain, assets — one Look.
The direction saved in Chat arrives with everything attached to it. A Look holds render settings and its own linked outputs, so the route that made a frame is still readable a month later.
In from Chat and Explore.RUN
Node workflows, at the depth the job needs.
A simple view for the frame you need now, and the full node graph when the route has to be exact. The same Look serves someone who wants a picture and someone who wants control of every step.
Simple and detailed views of one graph.LAND
Every render belongs to the job.
Output goes to this project's Assets tied to the Look that made it, not to a downloads folder. Pull a select back in and run version two of the same piece.
Out to Assets, and a drafted day into Shotlist.
KEY FACTS
Where it sits
- RECEIVES
- The direction from Chat, and references from Explore
- SENDS
- Frames into Assets; a drafted day into Shotlist
- RUNS ON
- Etch-managed image and video models
STAGE 05 OF SEVEN
Making the work, not trying AI.
The Look is the piece until it is shot or posted — and it is still attached to the brief that made it.
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