Lab
What's in progress right now, what's stuck, and what's buried. Kept honest on purpose — most of what you learn about steering AI, you learn from the ones that fought back.
In progress
Building
BeatDemo compositor
A TouchDesigner compositor that assembles a beat-synced demo reel from separate render passes.
Refining
ComfyUI ↔ Blender bridge
A working round trip: render passes out of Blender, through img2img in ComfyUI, and back in — no manual export/import.
In development
Dano Nodes
Custom ComfyUI nodes for the Resolve round trip — full write-up on /pipelines.
When AI projects go bad
Projects that started well and hit a wall. Each one says what the wall was.
Blocked for now
POP spectrogram visualizer
Was going to be A TouchDesigner audio-reactive visualizer built on point clouds (POPs), colored per-point off the spectrum.
What broke Couldn't get per-point color working reliably on the POP spectrogram — the piece that should have made it distinctive is the piece that's stuck.
Blocked for now
Frame-by-frame style transfer on a real reference video
Was going to be Rotoscoping a real reference video frame-by-frame through a style/LoRA pass to get a fully stylized reel out the other end.
What broke [DANO: this is inferred from project notes (marked ON ICE) — write the real reason it stalled: consistency across the sequence, time cost of the manual pass, licensing concerns, or something else.]