abstract-journey-film

Abstract journey film

There's no voiceover and no text until the logo: a glowing orb is the thread through 22 worlds, from dark and digital to bright and dreamy, ending on the brand. Example: examples/prismor/ is an 83 s Prismor title film.

Workflow

1. Start: python3 scripts/main.py init my-film.
2. Brand: put the real logo in assets/logo.png and set name in brief.json (the wordmark beside it). Never generate the logo.
3. Assets: restyle the prompts in assets.json to your palette, then run python3 scripts/main.py assets. assets <name> regenerates one.
   • The default model is gpt-image-2.5-sunburst. Use FRAMESMITH_IMAGE_MODEL=gpt-image-2.5-flare for faster drafts.
   • Transparent assets use native alpha. If a model refuses alpha, the engine falls back to a chroma key and a cutout automatically. Use "key": "#FF00FF" for green subjects.
4. Review: run sheet (30 frames across the film) and still 3 22 48.
5. Render: run render. The score (pad chords, shimmer notes on cuts, whooshes, a pulse in the bright half and a logo hit) is synthesised and muxed. Pass your own track by muxing afterwards if you have a licensed one.

Worlds

scenes in the brief overrides any duration (0 drops a world). In order:

• data · chamber · wire · room
• flight · horizon · vortex · neon
• icons · geometry · sroom · iso
• flash · pillars · ribbons · frost
• frames · pworld · portal · land
• space · logo

The dark half uses indigo, signal red, green and cyan accents. From flash onwards the film turns pastel. Each world is one function in scripts/main.py.

asset	used in	framing
orb	everywhere	small luminous glass orb, transparent
sphere_* (pink, cyan, lime, violet, peach, frost)	burst, sphere room, pillars, ribbons, frost	single glossy sphere, centred, transparent
planet_*	space	single planet, transparent
clouds, ribbon	landscape, ribbons, frames	separate shapes, transparent
iso_house, iso_stairs, iso_shield	isometric panels	isometric glass object, transparent; swap the shield for your product's symbol
bubbles_sky, pastel_world, landscape, space	horizon, flash, pastel world, landscape, space	wide 1536×1024 backdrops

Notes

• Scene canvases are RGB on purpose: Pillow blends translucent draws only on RGB images, and RGBA sprites paste with themselves as the mask.
• Dense particle fields use a seeded numpy table, not the h() hash, to avoid streaks.
• About 2000 frames: budget roughly 1–1.5 h on 2 throttled cores with FRAMESMITH_PRESET=veryfast.