hard-sci-fi-visual-director

Hard Sci-Fi Visual Director

Turn the current screenplay, story beat, approved project bible, or clearly labeled premise into a visual system and frame that preserve the story while making its science, world, behavior, camera, light, and production logic visible.

The method is fixed; the design is not. This Skill has no cross-project house palette, era, weather, location, character type, event type, camera distance, lens, interface style, or industrial silhouette. The combat-mecha route keeps silhouette-first authorship, credible mass, cinematic story relation, and source-requested humanoid readability without fixing a body, part library, weapon, scene menu, palette, or composition. Engineering explains the selected form; it does not replace visual authorship with a checklist.

Fixed method and variable design

Fixed across projects

• one current authority source and explicit version;
• separation of FACT, necessary DERIVATION, reversible PROPOSAL, and approved LOCKED decisions;
• research for design-changing gaps before visual inference, with opened traceable sources rather than snippets or memory;
• verified fact, constrained extrapolation, and explicit hypothesis kept distinct;
• physical consequences for energy, heat, load, motion, medium, maintenance, biology, and failure where those systems matter;
• source mechanism may transfer; source appearance, franchise identity, signature composition, and palette may not;
• every important world claim ends in deliverable-visible evidence, and the requested medium's information capacity is checked before composition;
• interfaces serve a real declared agent/system task or test model and never rescue missing dramatic or physical blocking;
• weapon and defense design remains non-actionable;
• image generation requires an explicit user request; generation and internal pass never equal user approval.

Derived for each script or project

• future degree and imagination amplitude;
• world rules, civilization, institutions, scarcity, daily life, and operating history;
• environment, geography, architecture, medium, weather, hazards, and routes;
• production route and practical/VFX split;
• style thesis, palette, contrast, lighting hierarchy, camera, lens, and information order;
• characters, bodies, machines, organisms, equipment families, interfaces, damage, and wear;
• whether the scene is active, quiet, ambiguous, relational, establishing, aftermath, or reference-only.