The Lucid Engine — a Story Forge film

The Lucid Engine — a psychedelic sci-fi short, generated end-to-end on one laptop with Story Forge. No cloud.

• Runtime ~4:30, portrait 720×1280
• Five acts: The Waking → The Wrongness → The Truth → The Hunt → The Break → Resolution
• First-person "unreliable narrator" spine (Piper narration) + character dialogue with baked lip sync
• Same-location multi-angle coverage derived via Flux img2img/t2i; LTX-2 distilled motion
• Unified color grade, drifting-dust overlay, and a low-drone / boom / shimmer sound-design bus mixed under an original Song Forge score

Pipeline: Flux (stills) → LTX-2 distilled (motion) → Piper (narration) → ffmpeg (grade, transitions, sound, mux). 100% local.