Cinema Pipeline
An AI pipeline I designed that produces a complete cinematic world set in Mexico City — original characters, locations, storyboards and short films, consistent from one frame to the next. Everything below was generated by the pipeline.
Meet the cast
Original characters generated for an in-production short — each one consistent enough to hold the same face from shot to shot.
The city, generated
Real Mexico City places, rebuilt as film locations — not stock, not tourist postcards.
Storyboards
Cinematographic frames — composition, lighting and lens, not just “a picture of the scene.”
Built for Mexico City, not translated into it
Generic AI looks like nowhere. This pipeline is tuned to one place — its faces, its barrios, its textures. Here’s what that actually means, in three parts.
1 · It’s in the place
2 · It’s in the face
Ask a default model for “a Mexican in the Metro” and you get a foreign-looking face in a subway that isn’t even ours.
See the prompt
“Close-up profile portrait of a young Mexican man in his early twenties inside an empty Mexico City Metro car, wearing over-ear headphones, leaning back against the train doors, gazing down the length of the car, shallow depth of field, plain black t-shirt, fluorescent lighting, photorealistic, candid documentary style, 16:9.” — no tricks, same idea, off the shelf.
3 · It’s in the streets
Real Mexico City places become film locations — Copilco · Lagunilla · El Chopo — with the textures a stock library will never have.
What it is
A multi-agent system that generates a complete film world: original characters, grounded in real Mexico City places, shot as a coherent set of scenes. The point isn’t one image — it’s a studio that can keep producing them, on demand, with a consistent voice and a consistent cast.
What it shows
- Identity continuity — the same character holds across dozens of stills, the hardest part of AI casting.
- A real cultural voice — the characters and streets live in Mexico City: its barrios, its subcultures, its texture.
- A full production, not a prompt — a coherent, consistent set of characters, locations and storyboards, not one-off hand-prompted images.
- Cost discipline — production-grade frames for cents, by design.