House of Shadows: Cinematic Horror Studio — Open Skill
House of Shadows: Cinematic Horror Studio
One idea → one complete miniature horror episode. House of Shadows: Cinematic Horror Studio is a reusable Digen Agent workflow for turning a concept, script, or reference image into a coherent ~30-second cinematic horror film. The Agent automatically handles: • Story structure and shot planning • Recurring character, location, prop, injury, and contamination continuity • Emotion-driven lighting and color • Canonical reference images and storyboard frames • Suspenseful animated shots with deliberate camera movement • Original horror music and final video assembly • A final continuity and pacing check Signature House of Shadows mode follows Ori, a cute origami child trapped inside an impossible, expanding home. Ink Mimics wear the silhouettes of his family, glowing red eyes and drooling white mouths visible in the dark. Blue or green signals temporary safety, yellow signals unease, red signals immediate danger, and black belongs to the Mimics and the stain spreading across Ori. Default behavior is one-click auto-run. Creators who want more control can request Preview Mode to approve the beat sheet or revise any single production stage. The workflow also supports sequel episodes while preserving established characters, damage, props, rooms, and supernatural effects. Try: “Create House of Shadows Episode 1. Ori wakes in darkness and must reach the master bedroom for the front-door key while his Mimic family searches the stretching house.”
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# House of Shadows: Cinematic Horror Studio ## Purpose Turn a story idea, script, episode brief, or owned reference image into a cohesive cinematic horror episode. The default output is a fully assembled ~30-second, 16:9 landscape film with recurring character consistency, emotional color storytelling, suspenseful animation, original music, and continuity that can carry into sequels. The Skill has two modes: - **House of Shadows Mode**: use the built-in world and character canon below. - **Custom Horror Mode**: apply the same production system to the user's original horror concept. ## When to use Use this Skill when the user wants: - A one-click, end-to-end cinematic horror episode. - A House of Shadows episode, sequel, or scene revision. - A stop-motion-inspired miniature horror film with a cute protagonist in a frightening world. - Recurring characters whose appearance and story state must stay consistent. - A specific stage changed without rebuilding everything: script, palette, character, storyboard, shot, music, or final mix. ## Default behavior: one-click auto-run When the user's brief is sufficient, proceed automatically from story plan through final assembly without stopping for approval. Do not ask routine questions that can be resolved from the brief or the defaults below. Only pause when essential information is missing, a reference image's usage rights are unclear, the user requests Preview Mode, or a tool error requires a choice. In Preview Mode, show the beat sheet before generation and wait for approval. ## House of Shadows canon When the user mentions House of Shadows, Ori, the Mimics, or asks for the default demonstration, lock these rules before creating anything. Uploaded user-owned reference images override written appearance details and become the visual ground truth. ### Ori - Ori is a small, cute origami child made from warm cream paper with visible folds and a tactile handmade surface. - Unless an uploaded reference says otherwise, Ori has dark folded-paper hair, large charcoal eyes, childlike proportions, and a simple blue paper coat. - Ori must remain recognizably identical across all images and video shots. - Fear is shown through posture, trembling paper edges, breathing, hesitant movement, and the environment—not exaggerated face changes that break identity. ### The Mimics - The Mimics are not Ori's family. They are wet-black ink creatures borrowing the exact silhouettes of his family. - Their only clearly visible facial features are glowing red eyes and drooling white mouths. - They move aimlessly until they sense Ori, then become unnaturally coordinated and predatory. - They may carry simple household weapons, but violence should remain suspenseful and platform-safe rather than graphic. - Mimic contact stains Ori's paper black. The stain persists, spreads logically, and must stay on the same side of his body in every later shot. ### The house and objective - Doors and windows are locked. Ori must reach the master bedroom, find the main-door key, and escape. - The house stretches and rearranges itself. Some rooms are familiar; others should feel impossible and unknown. - Room geography, visible damage, discovered objects, locked passages, and the key's location must be recorded in the continuity ledger. - Each episode should reveal one new rule or mystery and end with a visual scare, discovery, or cliffhanger. ### Emotional color law Use this story logic consistently in every image and video prompt: - **Blue**: quiet, temporary safety, loneliness. - **Green**: refuge, hope, or a possible escape route. - **Yellow**: uncertainty, suspicion, being watched. - **Red**: active danger, Mimic pursuit, imminent attack. - **Black**: Mimic bodies, contamination, and the house consuming reality. A scene may transition between colors when Ori's emotional state changes. The change must be motivated on screen rather than decorative. ### Visual language Create an original handcrafted stop-