{"attempt": 1, "what": "first 5 test frames", "saw": "legs read as jointed stilts, neck a white giraffe tube, head too small for the face to carry choices, treeline read as mountains, the cut wall hid the person in the doorway, ears like horns", "changed": "limbs drawn as one outline through the pivot chain; head landmarks cast 1.22x; neck shorter/wider, collar narrower; treeline of rounded crowns; near wall removed below the lintel"}
{"attempt": 2, "what": "close-up test", "saw": "the near jamb's thickness face became a wide dark pillar over the lying dog's shoulders", "changed": "jamb face removed; only the thin near casing is drawn in front of whatever crosses the threshold"}
{"attempt": 3, "what": "turn test 3.4-4.0 s", "saw": "the head led so far that a back-of-head plate sat on a side-view body: a headless bulb for 2-3 frames", "changed": "head lead clamped to 70 deg while the body turns; body turn starts 3.46 s"}
{"attempt": 4, "what": "look-in test 27.5 s", "saw": "the three-quarter-back head plate still read as a face (eye sliver, nose tip): looking in read as looking at the person", "changed": "redrew the 135 plate as the face withdrawn: back of skull, ear backs, cheek edge, receding muzzle, no eye"}
{"attempt": 5, "what": "stepper check", "saw": "reach was measured to the floor instead of the wrist/hock, so feet stepped 12 times a second even standing still; legs over-reached at the turns", "changed": "reach measured to the IK end; stepper looks 6 frames ahead and steps on over-reach; planted-foot drift now 0.0013 m/frame max"}
{"attempt": 6, "what": "partial full render", "saw": "in the wide shot the seated person was cut off at the left edge for 6-16 s, so the changed circumstances were not visible", "changed": "wide camera re-centred and widened; person sits at the score's x = -1.25; hand offered forward and low"}
{"attempt": 7, "what": "spectrogram (image only; I cannot listen)", "saw": "crickets a loud, regular band at ~4.5 kHz throughout", "changed": "crickets halved and slowly modulated"}
{"attempt": 8, "what": "timing (measured)", "saw": "look-in onset measured at 26.67 s (+0.27, outside tolerance)", "changed": "head turn into the room 26.36-26.62 s; measured 26.54 s"}
{"attempt": 9, "what": "full render 1", "saw": "film 14.3 MB (over 12 MB)", "changed": "x264 -tune animation crf 25: 2.66 MB; still looked at, flat colour intact"}
{"attempt": 10, "what": "full render 1, end", "saw": "the offered hand overlapped the lying dog's head at 28 s: read as taking the hand, and look-in read as toward the person", "changed": "the hand is drawn back to rest low once the dog lies (24.3-25.6 s); look-in turned deeper into the room; frames 576-767 re-rendered"}
{"attempt": 11, "what": "critic round 1 (independent): DOES NOT PASS, narrowly", "saw": "person's face failed 'eyes/mouth stay on face' and 'dignity of source portraits' (striped bands, hard seam, no eye, mouth barely opening); a 1 px casing line crossed the dog 22-32 s; 3.62-3.75 s read headless; look-in jumped without an intermediate view", "changed": "face plates flattened (source outline ink kept, bands/stripes replaced by one skin tone, geometry untouched); face registered by a similarity fit of its landmarks (bridge, nose tip, chin); drawn forehead/cheek underlay under the cut, hair over the cut edge (no seam), a drawn eye with blinks and brow, a mouth cavity under the source's open/half frames, soft voice reaching the open frame; near casing removed (the cut-away now removes the near jamb too); back-of-head plate barred during the turns and the head kept above the back line 3.40-4.15 s; look-in eased 26.30-26.74 s through the side view; all 768 frames re-rendered"}
{"attempt": 12, "what": "critic round 2: PASS, narrowly on craft; one more repair round", "saw": "white collar crossed the head/withers as a stripe in the three-quarter-front view (14.7-23.9 s, clearest 22.5, 23.6-23.85); head hidden behind the rump 7.51-7.59 s; refusing dog read as a loaf 5.0-7.4 s; person hung in the air at ~6.0 s; jaw line ran past the chin; hair/face edge straight", "changed": "collar moved up the neck plate to just below the head (0.70-0.80 of neck length), it is now covered by the head where the head overlaps it; refusing head held up (neck elevation >= 38 deg 4.15-8.2 s, no chin-on-paws) with ears at least half up 4.6-7.5 s; person's feet stay under the hips until he reaches the floor (a supported squat); source jaw ink below the chin removed; hair edge curved; all 768 frames re-rendered. Looked at crops 5.0, 6.25, 7.0-7.75, 22.5, 23.58-23.83 s and the person at 5.8/6.0 s"}
{"attempt": 13, "what": "critic round 3 (independent): DOES NOT PASS, narrowly; repair round 3 by a continuing builder", "saw": "on taking over: film.mp4, render.py, cards.py and register.py were all newer than round3.md, so the previous builder had already repaired some conditions after round 3 without recording it. Checked in the encoded film: no collar or light bar on the neck or back-of-head plates 14-32 s (the collar is no longer drawn); after 7.625 s the nose points toward the door or room on every frame (scan of 585 frames) and the 135/180 plates appear only from the look-in at 26.58 s; the end card already said the legs and tail are pivot-chain outlines. Still failing: (1) 28.1-32 s the door-lit white chest glowed over the head through the bloom pass (paint order already put the head last), and the settle (elevation -62 deg) sank the head into the bib; (4) 3.625 and 3.708 s the 135 head plate was squeezed by its affine fit (scale 181-183 vs ~222, anisotropy 1.38-1.46) and sat low behind the far shoulder; (5) the card also said 'placed only by affine fits', but 36 head frames use a size-keeping similarity fit", "changed": "bloom source masks out the figures (only the lamp and the doorway glow); while lying at the sill the head casts a soft shadow onto its chest and the floor; the settle after 28.0 s rests the head forward at -28 deg instead of -62, still a visible lowering from 61 deg; in the refusal turn (3.40-4.15 s) a head fit with anisotropy over 1.2 keeps its size (similarity fit pinned to the skull pivot), and the head is carried up to 54 deg through 3.55-3.85 s; end card: affine fits 'with a size-keeping similarity fit on 36 frames', paws named as two-point fits, legs and tail as one outline through a solved pivot chain. All 768 frames re-rendered.", "measured": "choices unchanged (refuse 3.583, watch 7.625, look-in 26.583, all within 0.25 s); head scale 3.58-3.75 s 209-224 px-units vs ~222 in the hold; visible share of the head group 0.75-0.92 through the turn; soft voice -13.52 dB vs calls; film 2.70 MB, 912 frames, 38.0 s; checker ALL OK", "looked_at": "crops at 2x from frames decoded from the encoded film.mp4: every frame 3.50-3.83 s, every second frame 7.54-8.54 s, every 0.5 s 14-32 s, every frame 27.92-28.33 s, every 8 frames 28-32 s; full frames at 30.83 s; the end card; stills 3.6 and 28 s"}