ORCHESTRATE & REFINE
Autonomous orchestration & iterative refinement
A single workflow plans the scenes, enacts the story, and refines the performance through execution feedback to produce the film, replacing repeated prompt-and-pick attempts.
From Representation to Orchestration
From Imagination to Simulation
Long stories.
One connected stage.
Aquarids's SpriteStage turns stories into executable performances — carrying actions, dialogue, and narrative state from one scene to the next.
Long-horizon animation · Reusable assets · Stage-style storytelling
ON THE STAGEThe Empty City Stratagem
Featured film09:56
REUSE & LOCAL REPAIR
Designed for lower cost
Reuse assets, retain accepted scenes, and repair only the affected actions. Unchanged dialogue audio can be reused across revisions.
STATE ACROSS SCENES
Built for longer stories
Each scene starts from the accepted world and narrative state of the last, keeping later events grounded in what actually happened.
CHARACTERS & PERFORMANCE
A stage-play aesthetic
Expressive sprite characters, deliberate blocking, dialogue, and camera cues bring a theatrical visual language to animation.
Stories on stage
The film gallery.
Different visual languages.
One approach to sustained storytelling.
The Empty City Stratagem
空城计 · 古典故事动画
Zhuge Liang faces an approaching army with open city gates and a calm musical performance. Illustrated characters and Chinese architectural scenery bring the classic Empty City Stratagem to an animated stage, with dialogue and scene execution carrying the story from preparation to retreat.
How it works
Build the story.
Keep its consequences.
Inspected outcomes become the starting point
for the next scene.
- 01
Plan the scene
Build a scene program from the accepted world checkpoint and narrative snapshot.
- 02
Enact & inspect
Execute the draft and inspect runtime events and rendered frames for legible actions and story continuity.
- 03
Repair & advance
Revise affected actions or beats. Accept the inspected outcome before constructing the next scene.
- 04
Bind & replay
Prepare engine assets around the accepted performance, inspect the sequence, and freeze motion and timing for final replay.
The central idea
A planned event becomes part of the story only after its enactment has been inspected and accepted.
About the research
Aquarids's SpriteStage
SpriteStage: Long Horizon Animation Generation via
Progressive Scene Programming and Replay
The SpriteStage research method studies long-form animation through executable scene programs. It connects world checkpoints with narrative snapshots, uses runtime and visual evidence to guide revision, and carries accepted performances into engine production.
Lower production cost is a design objective supported by reuse and local repair. This page does not report measured cost savings or benchmark results.
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