Quantum Art Booth Film
A 68-second silent booth film that follows a quantum circuit from request to result.
Translate a technical circuit-execution flow into a film that works without sound.
Made A looping booth film following the circuit from request to result.
- Starting point An eight-step technical deck and versioned style explorations.
- The craft Prototype the story and timing; compare image models before rendering and finishing the film.
- In the world A silent cinematic sequence, finished in After Effects and assembled in Premiere.
Finished frame The result sequence.
Style exploration Comparing image models before rendering the film.
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Quantum Art needed a film that could run silently on a large screen at a tech-industry event. The source material was the company's own user-acceptance and circuit-flow deck: eight steps from registration through token, circuit-run request, pre-process, backend porting, the run itself, and post-process. The brief that made it work was a refusal — this would not be an animated slide deck. The circuit itself is the main character, and the film follows it from request to result.
The production ran as a spec-then-plan-then-build cycle rather than ad-hoc generation. A browser-native prototype at 1920×1080 held timing, story, and layout as the source of truth, so composition decisions were settled before any expensive render; After Effects entered strictly as a finishing tool for colour, timing, grain, and delivery, and Premiere carried final assembly. Seven numbered style explorations were kept as untouched forks rather than overwritten, which made two model bake-offs directly reviewable side by side — Nano Banana Pro against GPT Image 2, first on exact-circuit fidelity and again on style match.
Technical accuracy was a client constraint, not a preference, so it was folded into the generation prompts themselves: gate letters restricted to Z, Y and X, cross-line blocks labelled only LSF, the long input circuit panning off-frame while the compiled Quantum Art circuit stays compact and fully visible. The official logo was placed as supplied artwork and never AI-generated or redrawn. Paid video generation ran behind a hardcoded cap written into the spec, the plan, and the prompt document — two clips, eight seconds, 1080p, textless. When one of those runs came back rejected by the provider's moderation with no result, it was logged as a run status and not silently retried.
The piece is included here as much for the method as the frames. The versioned-exploration discipline, the budget gate, and the layer-separated handoff generalise to any brand-system explainer film, which is why the project doubles as the reference implementation for later AI-film work.