MARIGOLD & RYE

50-second breakfast-cafe ad — first real clips, generated from the Blender camera references

5 of 8 shots rendered · ~95 of 350 credits · nothing assembled yet

These came off the grey-clay previz. The camera moves are the ones designed in 3D — the model was told to follow the reference and ignore its look. Judge the world and any AI mistakes; timing and the cut come later in the edit.

The hero — atrium crane, 10s, one unbroken move

Starts inside the cafe, travels through the brick archway and cranes up into the glass-roofed courtyard — chandelier over the fountain, olive trees, amber arches. This is the 3 Arts Club reference.

The cafe

1 · Opening — window bar clean

6s · sun raking along the empty bar

2 · Through the door clean

6s · push in from the entrance

3 · Hall wide clean

6s · the full loft, guests at breakfast

4 · Bakery counter REDO

6s · the chalk tags are gibberish — regenerating without them

Where it stands

Shot	State	Note
1 · window bar	done	clean
2 · through door	done	clean
3 · hall wide	done	clean
4 · counter	redo	gibberish chalkboard text (my prompt asked for tags — models can't write)
5 · espresso	pending	Google rate limit — hard stop, clears with time
6 · food macro	pending	page-load timeout on the slow uplink
7 · couple	pending	page-load timeout on the slow uplink
8 · atrium crane	done	the hero, clean

Two things for your eye

Room drift between shots. The cafe at the start of the crane reads more rustic than the loft in the hall wide. Each generation re-invents the room and Flow won't take a still and a video reference in the same job, so identical wording is my only lever. If it bothers you, the fix is to cut into the courtyard sooner.
The counter redo — same shot, no chalk tags. 10 credits.

The grey-clay previz, for comparison

The original 50s block-out. Note this is the earlier 13-shot version; the build was restructured to one continuous shot per generation after the cafe changed across an internal cut.

Verification so far — every previz clip verified as exactly one shot, all prompts pass prompt_lint, every rendered clip frame-checked by eye at full resolution (which is what caught the chalk-tag gibberish). Still to run once all 8 exist: the 42-question food-realism checklist, cut_check across the assembled cut, ad_gate, verify_playback, and a full watch-through.