03 / Workflow record

AI production

Three delivered projects, shown through their production claims, scope and validation.

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WuKong Education — AI Creative Production Test

AI Video Producer

Executed a full AI video production test for WuKong Education, a Silicon Valley-headquartered online education company serving 400,000+ families across 118 countries.

2026-07

COCO_BLACK / The Coffee Gets Lighter — production still

COCO_BLACK / The Coffee Gets Lighter

Producer & Visual Development Lead

Delivered two finished commercial masters and a multi-platform go-to-market plan for a self-initiated AIGC campaign.

2026-07 snapshot; live project ongoing

TEXAS BAIJIU — production still

TEXAS BAIJIU

Producer / Production Lead

Delivered a finished 102-second widescreen spirits commercial.

2026-07 onward — active

Workflow record

Where the machine stops

How each pipeline was actually built — the stages, the numbers, and the line between what the machine did and what still needed a person.

WuKong Education — AI Creative Production Test

Delivered — client-commissioned production test

A gated AI video pipeline built in about 110 minutes, from source inspection to a loudness-checked master. The finished films are not shown here: the employer-supplied source footage carries their own do-not-distribute watermark and features a child.

~110
minutes, research to delivery
4 + 1 + 2
hook prototypes, control, variants
35,203
files in the production workspace

Pipeline

  1. 01Source inspectionWaveform analysis found audio only in the first ~3.9s, contradicting the metadata
  2. 02Contact sheets and scene map
  3. 03Performance hypothesis and claim-safe script
  4. 04Bilingual overlay graphics1080×1920, typography via Pillow
  5. 05Voice and procedural music stems
  6. 06Mix, duck, normalise, encode
  7. 07QC gate and delivery−14 LUFS delivery QC; edit decisions preserved in src/build.py

Run by the pipeline

  • Located and probed the actual source
  • Generated time-sampled frames and contact sheets
  • Selected in/out points by commercial function
  • Built the 1080×1920 bilingual graphics
  • Generated replaceable synthetic VO stems
  • Wrote an original procedural music bed
  • Trimmed, composited, mixed, normalised, encoded
  • Emitted SRT and machine-readable loudness QC

Still required a person

  • Whether the household truth reads as empathetic rather than judgmental
  • Whether the synthetic voice clears the hiring manager’s quality bar
  • Whether the temporary music carries the right emotional taste
  • Whether the unavoidable source watermark is acceptable
  • Whether a direct-response CTA beats this lower-pressure tone
  • Which single file to submit, and whether the variants go with it

Deliberately not used

Cloud video intelligence
Unnecessary and inappropriate for child footage
Generative children, teachers, testimonials or family scenes
Creatively and ethically wrong for this task
An invented WuKong logo
No official asset was supplied, so the end card uses a typographic treatment instead
Remotion
Too much setup for four restrained, motion-light graphic systems

COCO_BLACK / The Coffee Gets Lighter

Delivered — self-initiated, not client-commissioned

A complete self-initiated AIGC commercial campaign taken from treatment to two finished masters and a launch plan. Production closed 18 July 2026.

19s + 5s
two delivered masters, 16:9
4
launch platforms planned
3
completion stages: picture lock, audio, upscale

Pipeline

  1. 01Treatment
  2. 02Production development
  3. 03Visual skeleton
  4. 04Character and location asset sheets
  5. 05Motion tests
  6. 06Two final masters19s product/taste film and 5s hyper-motion film, both 16:9
  7. 07Go-to-market planInstagram Professional Creator, Japan Creator Marketplace, RedNote and LinkedIn — a three-post launch sequence plus a case-study carousel

TEXAS BAIJIU

In progress — self-initiated, not client-commissioned

A six-act commercial being built under an explicit generation discipline: nothing enters the production network until a person locks it, and every cut inside a dramatic unit is written down so the model cannot invent its own edit points. Video generation is currently frozen; image work is cleared.

2.39:1
six acts, widescreen
90s / 108s
two structural animatics built
721
files inventoried at 100% in the asset audit

Pipeline

  1. 01Script
  2. 02Cinematic-perspective novelLOCKED — the authority any later stage is checked against
  3. 03Scene-by-scene prep, seven deliverables eachMcKee analysis · beat cards with gap, subtext and verbal-action columns · nine-column shot table · sound map · dramatic-unit prompt · risk gaps · spatial reference set
  4. 04All eight scenes approved
  5. 05Shoot — pure execution

Run by the pipeline

  • Generation runs, one continuity image at a time
  • Take ledger synced from the platform’s own generation history
  • Structural animatics assembled from approved frames
  • OTIO bridge writing edit order and in/out points into the NLE

Still required a person

  • Every prompt is read by a person before it is spent
  • Nothing counts as locked until a person says so — a generated image is not a lock
  • Blocking is locked before any image is generated, never after
  • Every claim is marked verified, unchecked, or interpretation — an interpretation is never delivered as fact
  • Downstream changes are propagated back upstream, and butterfly-effect changes are confirmed before they are made

The career archive records this entry as a delivered 102-second film. The project’s own progress record, updated 11 August 2026, has it in scene-prep with video generation frozen. The live project record is the one shown here.

WuKong Education — AI Creative Production Test

AI Video Producer

Built and executed a gated AI video production pipeline as a commissioned test for an international EdTech company operating across 118 countries.

Executed a full AI video production test for WuKong Education, a Silicon Valley-headquartered online education company serving 400,000+ families across 118 countries.

Period
2026-07
Scope
Complete AI production pipeline: identity lock, G1/G2/G3 gates, controlled QC
Scale
35,203-file production workspace; V6 master delivered at 49 seconds across 42 frame-contiguous shots (1,470 frames at 30fps, 1080x1920), with separate voice, music and clean-picture stems, a locked-text caption authority with SRT derivative, and a 12-check preflight and export QC gate that fails on timeline gaps, subtitle drift, inactive-source leakage, wrong frame count, decode failure, wrong colour format or blank frames
Validation
client-commissioned production test, delivered

ContextWuKong Education: founded 2016, HQ Mountain View CA, three brands (Chinese, International Math, English ELA), 3,000+ teachers, claims top market share in US, Canada, Australia and NZ.

Recognition

COCO_BLACK / The Coffee Gets Lighter

Producer & Visual Development Lead

Self-initiated and delivered a complete AIGC commercial campaign — two finished masters (a 19-second product film and a 5-second hyper-motion film) plus a multi-platform go-to-market plan across Instagram, the Japan Creator Marketplace, RedNote and LinkedIn, with a three-post launch sequence and a case-study carousel. Production closed 18 July 2026.

Delivered two finished commercial masters and a multi-platform go-to-market plan for a self-initiated AIGC campaign.

Period
2026-07 snapshot; live project ongoing
Scope
Two delivered commercial films plus launch strategy
Scale
Two final masters — a 19-second product/taste film and a 5-second hyper-motion film, both 16:9; production closed 18 July 2026
Validation
self-initiated — label clearly as self-initiated

Context

Recognition

TEXAS BAIJIU

Producer / Production Lead

Wrote and delivered a finished 102-second widescreen spirits commercial — six acts, 22 final shots selected from 42 generation tasks — built on a written commercial proposition ("Chinese spirit as a new ingredient in a city built on mixing") and an explicit risk discipline ("avoid oriental spectacle — the bartender must be genuinely stumped, not mystified").

Delivered a finished 102-second widescreen spirits commercial.

Period
2026-07 onward — active
Scope
Finished 102-second commercial, 2.39:1, six acts
Scale
22 final shots selected from 42 generation tasks on Seedance 2.0; six acts; 2.39:1 widescreen; plus two structural animatics (90s, 108s)
Validation
self-initiated — label clearly as self-initiated

Context

Recognition