ZFORGE · THE DEMO · MOCK STUDIO · MMXXVI
▸ HYBRID 3D × AI FILM PIPELINE · ONE CONTINUOUS LOOP

The Demo

A single prose prompt — "Coalition dry-dock, abyssal dunes, low-angle 75 mm Kodachrome" — walked through every node of the integrated stack, desk to 3D-printed stage to dropped-in scene.

Five acts, roughly one minute each. Mechanica Composer generates a reference card. ZForge Scene Composer reads it and the skills converge into one USD scene. That scene branches three ways — digital, physical, latent — and the recorded plate drops back into the corpus. The path broadens while the look refines.

▸ Pre-release demonstration

This page is a staged walkthrough of the designed workflow. Clips marked AUTHENTIC are real captures of tools running today; clips marked SIMULATED stand in for hardware steps (LED dome, 3D print, robotic rig) until the physical stage is built. Each slot is a drop-in — simulated footage is replaced by the real take as it's shot, with no re-edit.

FIG. HW-01 · THE LOOP

One diagram, the whole pipeline

PROMPT → SCENE → SKILLS → USD → 3 MODALITIES → CORPUS
Hybrid workflow diagram
I
~45 SEC · MECHANICA COMPOSER

Prompt → Reference card

IDEATION · OVERLAY · AUDIO · ALT-TEXT
▸ Authentic capture
Screen-record of Mechanica Composer generating the card live. Real footage — this tool runs today.

The prose prompt is typed into Mechanica Composer. It generates a "DOCKING BAY 001 / NIGHT" overlay-text card with a Kodachrome aesthetic — overlay font and position chosen, an audio graft from the late-Romantic adagio corpus, alt-text describing the frame. The finished reference card saves to the Library.

Narration · Act I It begins as a sentence. Coalition dry-dock, abyssal dunes, low-angle seventy-five millimeter, Kodachrome. The Composer does not decorate the sentence — it commits it: overlay set, audio grafted, alt-text written. A card, not a mood.
Plates from the trained worlds — captions are the recovered generation prompts (hash-joined to the ledger)
Ghostly naval starship fleet gliding over a foggy white dune at night
T2 · EXACTnaval gigantic starship fleet, elegant and ethereal, over a foggy white dune at night — @nostromo
 Giant cybernetic suborbital freighter dropship, tight profile portrait
T2 · EXACTethereal flying giant cybernetic suborbital freighter dropship, platooning — profile tight shot
→ produces   reference_card.json  ·  overlay.png  ·  audio_graft.mp3  ·  alt_text.txt
▸ Mechanica Composer
II
~50 SEC · ZFORGE SCENE COMPOSER

Scene Composer reads + plans

VLM DIRECTOR · SKILL DAG · COST ESTIMATE
▸ Authentic capture
Scene Composer UI capture — prose resolving into a staged scene in real time.

The reference card is dropped onto ZForge Scene Composer. The skills converge into one staged scene in real time — the orchestration that plans and sequences them is withheld pending filing.

Narration · Act II A director that is not a person reads the card. It stages what the sentence implies — and prices the plan before a single polygon is spent.
Ethereal foggy dark void space, wide low shot
T2 · EXACTan ethereal foggy dark void space of metaphysical otherworld — wide low, 75mm Kodachrome
 Subterranean giger dream space, wide low shot
T2 · EXACTan ethereal foggy dark void — subterranean giger dream, deep sense of depth
→ produces   one staged USD scene
▸ Scene Composer
III
~70 SEC · FOUR SKILLS, PARALLEL

Skill dispatch → USD assembly

KITBASH · STAGER · TOPO · HOLYGRAIL · MERGE
▸ Authentic + Blender/Maya
Split-screen of each skill panel + Blender/Maya captures for the geometry steps.

Split-screen: each skill runs in its own panel. Kitbash shows the top-K freighter retrievals with symmetry tags. Scene Stager's calibration loop converges on the reference's chiaroscuro and warm white-balance in three iterations. Topo Doctor flashes defect classifications and fixes. HolyGrail rebuilds quads from the boolean intersection. The orchestrator merges the USD prims into one scene graph, live.

Narration · Act III Four skills fire in parallel. Kitbash pulls the shapes. The Stager argues the light into the reference's chiaroscuro. Topo Doctor and HolyGrail settle the mesh. One USD scene — no orphan geometry.
Gigantic foggy dreamlike cloudscape stretching to the horizon
T2 · EXACTEthereal gigantic foggy dreamlike cloudscape layer on Jupiter — Kodak Vision3 500T
 Cloudscape layer variant, Vision3 500T
T2 · EXACTthe same session, one seed over — the corpus holds its siblings
→ produces   calibration_session.json  ·  assembled_scene.usd
▸ Kitbash ▸ Scene Stager ▸ Topo Doctor ▸ HolyGrail
IV
~75 SEC · ONE ASSET, THREE OUTPUTS

Three-modality branch

DIGITAL · PHYSICAL · LATENT
▸ UE5 capture
UE5 Sequencer + tracked virtual camera, RED-VRAPTOR 8K VV preset.
(a) Digital · UE5
▸ Simulated
3D print at 1uu=1cm against an LED-dome backdrop. Stand-in until the stage is built.
(b) Physical · 3D print
▸ Simulated
Custom LDM extending the HDR dome generatively. External gen until the custom model ships.
(c) Latent · HDR dome

The same USD asset, three outputs in a triptych. One scene graph drives a digital Unreal stage, a physical 3D-printed mini-bigature on an LED backdrop, and a latent diffusion dome — all from a single source of truth.

Narration · Act IV The same scene leaves the building three ways: rendered in-engine, printed and photographed under real light, extended through the latent dome. Three plates. One provenance.
Subterranean giger dream, wide low
T2 · EXACTfoggy dark void — subterranean giger dream, wide low
 Dark void dream space dune, Utah lattice
T2 · EXACTdark black void dream space — dune, Utah land, night
 Giant cybernetic black gothic naval Macross serial over a dune
T2 · EXACTethereal dark foggy dune — giant cybernetic black gothic naval Macross serial (Dec 2024)
V
~40 SEC · FEEDBACK

The cycle broadens

RECORDED PLATE → CORPUS → RECURSIVE
▸ Simulated
Tracked-camera composite of the printed mini-bigature, dropped back into the corpus. Mock until the stage exists.

The final recorded plate — the tracked-camera composite of the printed mini-bigature against the LED-stage backdrop — drops back into Mechanica Composer as a new training reference. The corpus expands: 5 frames, 20, 100, recursive.

Narration · Act V The plates do not retire. They re-enter the corpus — and the next sentence lands in a world that has already learned this one.
Lightning in the desert, subterranean void
T2 · EXACTlightning in the desert — foggy dark void, subterranean, wide low
 Ultra-wide 75mm Kodachrome plate
T4 · FILENAMEultra-wide · 75mm Kodachrome — prompt truncated by the platform; the dig marked it honestly
 Foggy dark void giger dream space at night
T2 · EXACTfoggy dark void — giger dream space at night, Jul 2025
"The path broadens while the look refines — anchored by a collaborative compositional array."
▸ PRODUCTION STATUS

This walkthrough is staged from the design at _shared/DEMO_WORKFLOW_DESIGN.md. Acts I–III capture tools that run today; Acts IV(b/c) and V are simulated until the physical stage — 3D printer, LED dome, tracked camera — is assembled. Every video slot is a named drop-in, so each simulated clip is replaced by the authentic take as it's shot.

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