Release 2026.09.20
Nothing changes quietly
10 new1 improved
2026.09.20Sep 20, 2026ReleaseSep 20, 2026
Nothing changes quietly
A location is one place now, shot in as many looks as the story needs, and a costume says which scenes it is worn in — so a scene marked winter night stops building on the summer the place was drawn in. What was made before the change says so: an amber dot on every take whose source has moved, and a log of every row that changed anywhere in the production, with what it said before. Pictures can be dragged straight into the studio from your desktop or another tab, and the Producer’s dailies can arrive on your own ClickUp board.
NewProduction DesignA location is now one place across every scene that plays there — and it can be shot in more than one look. Add a season, a time of day, weather, or anything else the story does to the place; or ask the designer to read the scenes and name the looks the script demands. A look is re-shot from the location as designed, so the architecture, the framing and the materials hold and only the conditions change. Then each scene is shot in one of them — the designer can place them all at once off the sluglines and story days, and a scene you set yourself stays where you put it. Shots are staged against the look their scene is in, so a scene marked winter night no longer builds on the summer the location was drawn in.
NewCostumeEvery look now says which scenes it is worn in. Tick them under the set and shots in those scenes are dressed in that costume — it reaches the generator in words, and that look's plate leads the references instead of whichever set happened to be first. Nobody wears two costumes in one scene, so ticking a scene that belongs to another look moves it there. When the Costume Designer builds the wardrobe from the script it fills the scenes in itself.
NewStudioA take now says when it has gone out of date. Re-render a face, re-shoot a location's plate, change the camera package — and everything already made from it carries an amber dot: the full-length and the costume plates, the board, the frames that character is in and the videos cut from them. The dot says which of them moved and when, in the gallery and in the window the take lives in. It is a note, never a block — if the drift does not matter to the scene, accept it and the dot goes.
NewStudioHistory now has three logs instead of one. Work is what the crew did — every request, process and message. Changes is every row created, edited or deleted anywhere in the production, with what it said before: who renamed the character, who cleared the costume, what the shot's camera used to be. Access is who was let in, what was shared and what was removed. Changes is for anyone who can edit the production, Access for whoever owns it — and Changes is written by the database itself, so nothing gets in without a line.
NewStudioDrag a picture straight in. A photo from your desktop — or one dragged out of another browser tab, off any page you found it on — now lands wherever the studio takes pictures: the Generate studio's attachments, the Shot generator's references, the reference photos in casting, costume and makeup, props, the location boards, the poster and the gallery. The place you hold it over lights up and says what it will do with it. Another site will not hand a picture to the page, so the studio fetches it for you and saves it to the production like any other upload; a still of your own, dragged from one window to another, is attached as itself rather than copied again.
NewSettingsClickUp, on your own board: connect your ClickUp under Profile → Keys & integrations — paste a token, pick the workspace, search the board for a list — and the Producer’s dailies for the productions you own arrive there every morning as cards, one per production that did something the day before, carrying the same report the crew reads here with a link back to the production. Your key, your list: nobody else’s productions reach it, and yours reach no one else’s.
NewStudioThe studio keeps its own board for what is administrative: every post from the public feedback portal, on the connection an admin makes at Settings → ClickUp — and productions never report there.
NewStudioA board for the models themselves. Benchmarks holds the studio's verdict on every model it can run — tried, preferred, not for us — with the note that says why, and beside the verdict the numbers the studio's own work produced: how much of the production's output each model made, how long it takes to answer, how often it comes back empty. A verdict is written once and read everywhere the model is offered.
NewSettingsLimits per account, and who answers for them. An admin can cap what an account may spend in a day or a month, and name the person who manages it — the cap is checked before a generation starts, so it is refused with a reason rather than billed and regretted.
NewProduction DesignReferences have a room of their own. Search Wikimedia Commons or Pexels from inside the studio, and a picture you keep arrives with its papers: where it came from, whose it is, what may be done with it — green, amber or red. File it to a scene or to a collection of your own, say what it is for, approve it. What a scene's approved base references show is what its location is built from: they lead the plates ahead of the photographs ticked on the board, so the architecture, the point of view and the framing of the place you found survive into the render. Rejected finds do not come back in a later search.
ImprovedGenerateThe library opens on one page of itself and scrolls for the rest, instead of sending every take in the production to the browser before it draws anything. On the largest productions that is a page of about twenty kilobytes where it used to be two megabytes, and the counts and tags arrive with it. A take still on its way now shimmers only while it is near the screen — with hundreds of tiles waiting, the animation alone was keeping the tab busy.
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