Six Hundred Stay Off the Cut

The first hundred steps sat on thirty-four mixed stills and looked like the base model wearing a shrug. The next pass kept sixteen cloud-recorded pages and ran three hundred. Texture showed up. Depth showed up. The look did not finish learning.

I warm-started those weights with a fresh optimizer and ran another three hundred. Cumulative six hundred. Fur, bark, foliage, lighting got dimensional. The munchkin's identity did not. One lantern seed duplicates her. Books arrive that the prompt never asked for. Woodland transfers. Kitchen and village do not.

Each contact sheet is six scenes, two seeds, base against the adapter. The twelve base repeats on the later sheets are pixel-identical. The foundation did not drift. The adapter did. Six hundred stays an experimental baseline. Nothing goes on the cut. Future videos collect better stills. This series stays an illustrated storybook, not a new renderer.