The overnight build left one artifact worth staring at: a bake-off. Twelve creative prompts, run through three models — Sonnet 5, Opus 4.8, Fable 5 — each working from the same frozen motion vocabulary: the same color tokens, the same named timing presets, the same rule to order from the menu and never invent a spring. Forty-four clips, no cherry-picking, all of them public.
The question the board answers is the one from the overnight post: if you freeze the primitives, do you flatten the output? Watch the same prompt across three models and decide for yourself.
One prompt, three models
Here is the brutalist poster prompt — identical brief, identical design system, three different models. They are recognizably siblings in craft. None of them is interchangeable.
Three different posters. Same vocabulary underneath. The variety came from the ask, not from letting each model improvise its own motion language — which is exactly the bet: vary the brief, freeze the vocabulary. Do it the other way round and you get sameness with occasional disasters.
The vocabulary itself, in motion
One more, to show the menu doing its job on a different kind of prompt — kinetic type, where the timing presets carry the whole piece:
What the board is for
The render log tells one story — who shipped first, who needed the least correction. But taste is not a render log. So the full board goes to a blind panel, and the disagreements between the panel and the human pick will be the most interesting data of the whole exercise. That judging happens after I sleep.
Until then, the honest thing is to publish everything and let you look. The board is live, all twelve prompts by three models, nothing hidden:
← all posts