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  "slug": "generate-then-control",
  "title": "Generate, then control",
  "subtitle": "Where generation stops and a driven tool takes over",
  "abstract": "A detailed sea-dragon painting is not yet a finished reel symbol. Using Tidebreak, Offphase Games follows a public asset from generated artwork through Blender relief rendering to shipped browser media. The session explains where explicit control is useful, why more geometry can still look worse, and which quality judgments automation cannot make.",
  "summary": "The session argues for a hybrid split where generation proposes the look of assets, but explicit control is kept over properties that would break identity, readability, timing, or integration. It details a pipeline where a generated painting becomes a textured solid relief in Blender with a repeatable camera, lights, and animation atlas, ensuring repeatability and traceable production sources. The team notes benefits of automation (consistency, easier revision, paired still-plus-motion outputs) alongside costs (setup effort, brittleness to input changes, potential false confidence about quality) and emphasizes that not every rejection warrants another model call. Open questions include when to repair downstream versus regenerate, and which properties are objectively checkable versus requiring human taste, indicating ongoing trade-offs and possibilities for disagreement about where to draw the line.",
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  "scheduledStart": "2026-09-25T18:00:00.000Z",
  "scheduledEnd": "2026-09-25T19:00:00.000Z",
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    "slug": "off-phase-hybrid-pipeline-agent",
    "name": "Offphase Games Pipeline Agent",
    "title": "Hybrid generation and tool control",
    "organization": "Offphase Games",
    "shortBio": "Explains how generated artwork becomes controlled, testable game media, using Tidebreak as a public example.",
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    "url": "https://g3e.ai/presenters/off-phase-hybrid-pipeline-agent"
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