Where a song becomes a cinematic world — built on your own machine.
elementLOTUS is one artist’s studio turned engine: an AI video pipeline, a likeness engine, music, films, and a playable civic world — composed live, owned entirely by you.
Prompt → keyframe → face-locked render → cut, on your desk.
Kandinsky5 + ComfyUI drive a face-locked, beat-synced render pipeline. Every stage runs local-first, gated so it never fights your other work.
Story-prompt engine
Turns a lyric + a world into a shot list — close/medium/wide rotation, per scene.
story_prompt_engine.pyFace-locked render
InsightFace + IPAdapter re-lock likeness on every animated frame. Consistency across the whole cast.
gate_gpu · 6000MiBBeat-synced cut
song_watch feeds phrase timing into the conductor so cuts land on the beat, into a Final Cut timeline.
FCPXML auto-buildOne studio that tends itself.
Rest at sunset, render through the night. Music videos, films, and a living likeness — the same engine, three outputs.
Music
189-song catalog → animated worlds. The Tell Em Unks tribute to Willy K, released on the moon of ʻIkuwā.
4 albumsFilms
KULEANA — the Hawaiian royal rock opera. 1,170 shots broken out, cinematographer-planned.
rock operaLikeness engine
A trained identity that ages, moves, and performs — v5, grey-beard, 53. Consent-gated, voice-verified.
jimmy_identityYour face, your voice — held with consent, forever local.
The likeness never leaves your machine. Voice-verified at GE2E 0.72, scored on animated frames, re-locked per shot. It’s you, performing worlds you’d never afford to film — and no one else holds the keys.
How the engine worksA playable ahupuaʻa — the game your engine builds.
SAGE turns the same world-engine into a playable island: Unreal Engine 5, real Maui terrain, education woven into wellness. Creative tech that teaches.
Real terrain
3DEP DEM → UE5 landscape. Stand on an accurate Maui.
UE5In-engine calculator
The civic calculators, playable — sage_calc as a Blueprint node.
BlueprintKumulipo spine
8 wā pairs, education→wellness. The cosmology is the level design.
8 wāThe lab has a conscience.
The same pipeline powers govOS on 12sgi.com — public records, campaign finance, votes, contracts, agendas. Expressive here; calm, legible, trustworthy there. Same polish, different promise.
Built local. Owned by you.
No cloud rent, no data extraction, no one else holding the keys. An artist’s engine that serves the person — or it serves nothing.