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GroundSlateFive models, one SVG character brief
Same prompt. Five pictures. Astra High is the drawing. A puppet still needs real SVG.
4 Sept 2026
GroundSlateA GroundSlate character you can animate
Deb, Sprocket and the Barlow front yard, from a brief to two finished films
2 Sept 2026
AI Video NewsWan rents the film. LTX-2.5 keeps the cut
A thirty-second rented film, and a local cut that holds.
31 Aug 2026
AI Video NewsRunway Aleph 2.0 Makes AI Video Editing More Workflow-Ready
Runway Aleph 2.0 is a hosted API accessible AI video editing model
16 Aug 2026
How to ask
What separates publishable work from a plausible guess
- Cut and assemble
One person, every place, ten minutes of it
One clip a day, years of them, the crop following their face
The long form edit
Hours of footage into a film with chapters, narration and a score
- Design and render
A software walkthrough that writes its own chapters
Callouts pinned to the pixels you pointed at, and chapters exported
What it does, and what it works with
The line between your Mac and your agent's own connections
- Design and render
A launch film cut from the site itself
Cut from what the product looks like today, not from March's screenshots
- Design and render
One sales video, forty personalised copies
Build the deck once, render a version per prospect
- People and relationships
A family tree that plays
Every branch gets a chapter of that person's best footage
- Design and render
A deck that presents itself
Send the pitch instead of presenting it
Connect your agent
Wire a client to your Mac, and decide how far it may reach
- Find footage
Find the exact moment, with handles
Cut the line somebody said as its own file, with handles either side
The audit they watch
An audit they watch instead of a PDF nobody opens
The competitive brief sales uses
Every claim on screen is the competitor's own page
The two transition libraries
Pick a seam that does not cost you an afternoon
- Cut and assemble
Vertical that follows the subject, not the middle of the frame
The crop follows a named person's face, not the centre of the frame
- Cut and assemble
A trip, cut to a reel, with rules
State the pacing rules up front, read the plan before anything renders
Puppets and style kits
SVG parts, an HTML sheet, a voice on one character
The sound library you own
Find a sound by describing it, not by remembering a filename
- Sound and music
A montage cut to the music, ducked properly
Cut on phrase boundaries, not beats, and end on the music
The 3D kinetic short
A vertical short where the words are the motion and the frame has depth
The animated series in five steps
SVG drawings, HTML shots, a film captured from those pages
- Design and render
A branded audit, rendered as video
The audit arrives as a film, on brand, rendered on your own Mac
The pitch you win
The pitch as a film, with a cut to mark up after every round
- Design and render
A cartoon character you can actually animate
A description in, SVG parts out, on model and ready to talk
The site is the story
Built from the live product, no mockups and no recreations
- Design and render
Titles and lower thirds, on brand
Author overlays from a spec, timed to the beats so they land
- People and relationships
Teach it who everyone is
Walk the uncertain faces once, and every cut after it gets sharper
Time your own Mac
A local benchmark on the published shapes, in a folder that stays yours
- Design and render
Two characters, one conversation
Two SVG puppets, HTML shots, mouths timed off the audio
- Organise and index
Ten years of loose files, organised overnight
Index the drive, then let it name the events it finds
The Animated Series
SVG drawings, HTML shots, a first episode a second agent can pick up
The front that can be rigged
A T-pose front SVG, written from the kit
- Design and render
A grade, and a way out
Bake a LUT from a reference clip, and hand editors real files
The cast that reads at a glance
SVG puppets you would put on television
The sets the camera moves through
SVG planes a camera can move through
- Cut and assemble
The whole reel in one ask
One call returns the wired plan, and it renders once you have read it
- Operate and scope
Watch the queue
See what is running, and have your agent wait for the render
- Organise and index
Teach the vision model your world before it looks
A few sentences of your vocabulary, given to the models before they look
- People and relationships
See who is on screen and when
Names and timecodes, so shot selection stops being a scrub
- People and relationships
Record two relationships, get a whole family
Mark a couple of links and the rest of the family is derived
- People and relationships
Map a person's footprint
Every place you have footage of someone, grouped by city
- Find footage
Find everything you shot around here
Radius search off any clip's GPS, nearest first, entirely offline
- Design and render
A narrator from a sentence
Describe the voice once and every video after it sounds like your channel
- Operate and scope
Work from the laptop, without the big drives
Use only what is plugged in, and fail clearly when it is not
- Design and render
Give a character one voice, forever
One identity kit, so every script sounds like the same character
- Operate and scope
Keep client work genuinely separate
Name a profile and your agent works in it, whatever the app has open
- People and relationships
Fix a name and let the words catch up
Rewrite the prose after an identity change, with no model calls
- Organise and index
Let it propose what belongs in an event
Ranked candidates from the edges of the envelope, for you to confirm
- Operate and scope
Drive it from two clients at once
Plan in one client, render from another, one queue behind both
Machine readable index at /llms.txt