# The craft

Studio draws every picture with code and moves it with one continuous camera. No image or video model draws a frame.

## Drawn by code

A Studio film is a program. The director writes each shape as points and curves, cuts it like paper with a torn edge, lights it from one side and gives it a soft shadow on the sheet below. The kit renders the program frame by frame.

## Characters with faces

At most two named characters, each with eyes that blink and look, cheeks, and a mouth that smiles, gasps or grins on the word that calls for it.

## One camera

The honey film has no cuts: the camera pushes into a flower, travels with the bee, and goes through the hive's door into one wax cup. Things enter from the edge of the frame or from inside another thing; nothing pops in.

## One change

Each film follows one object as it changes: a drop of nectar into honey, a kernel into popcorn. The change is the answer.

## Sound

Narration, music, effects and ambience, timed to the word and mixed to -14 LUFS with a true peak under -1 dBTP.

## Checked

Before a film is done the kit scans every frame for flashes, pops, whips, hard cuts, unreadable captions and loudness, and a film with a defect is not rendered until it is fixed.

Canonical page: https://surfstudio.app/craft