STUDIO TOOL

Media OS

The pipeline our video, stills and print
pages
come out of. A production is a
folder holding
a brief, its sources and
its specs. Media OS
made our six Contra
covers and a film with its
making-of cut.

This work's record Next: Crow's Eve

ILLUSTRATION: A RENDERED WAVE, DRAWN

What it does

01
Sources recorded
as they arrive
Intake copies each file into the

production and writes a sidecar
beside
it with its sha256, its
license line and
where it came from.
02
A spec for
each engine
Blender reads a .scene.json
headless,
a .layout.json becomes
ExtendScript for
Illustrator or
InDesign, and a .cartoon.json

becomes an After Effects project.
03
Measured on
the way out
The render stage measures each
mix by
EBU R128, and the cartoon
tool counts
the frames a render
holds and refuses
a short file.
04
Approved
by the file
Frederick approves a deliverable
only
after packaging, by the packaged
file's
own hash, and the package
folder
carries a SHA256SUMS list.

Three productions,
one frame each

The middle frame comes from the making-of
cut of a film made for a client we invented.

ILLUSTRATION
Two printed cards in window light, drawn here;
the cover
itself is a Cycles render placed on its
4:3 page
by Illustrator.
FRAME
A frame-by-frame scan from the making-of

cut: two stray frames in the stabilized pass,

none in the clean window the cut uses.
FRAME
The Way Out, movement one: After Effects

reveals a painted cave plate under a moving

flashlight beam.