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Built spaces, horror craft and a new Nexus episode

Three narrative additions, production credits checked against original sources, and a clarified veteran-director announcement.

Crownless & Bound poster showing a young man facing a nobleman across a chessboardCrownless & BoundFestivalRed, green and white Cracked Chimes poster with a terrified printer and a looming hooded figureCracked ChimesFestivalA small orange-furred Maki in the original episode's video posterMaki Death Games — Nexus Episode 5Watch now

Crownless & Bound and Cracked Chimes join the collection with credited festival artwork. Their entries examine spatial planning and collaboration rather than treating festival awards as a substitute for watching the films.

Maki Death Games, Nexus Episode 5, adds a new released story and a practical production breakdown. PJ Ace’s newly shared guide separates rough 3D camera/timing references from finished image references. The episode page preserves those techniques and the disclosed model versions; earlier episode credits are not assumed to apply.

A veteran director’s announcement, clarified

September reporting of Paul Schrader’s plans described one project as all-AI and another with roughly 15 minutes of AI material. The Playlist’s September 4 account connects the first to the reconfigured Three Guns at Dawn and treats The Doors of Perception as a possible identity for the second, not an established identification.

The underlying THR and Deadline interviews could not be fetched in this check. This is attributed announcement coverage, with no completed-film claim, model inventory, release date or assertion that the 15-minute sequences have been produced.

The distinction matters artistically: generating performers throughout a noir and generating an altered-state passage inside a conventional film pose different continuity and performance problems. The announcements support following those approaches; they do not yet demonstrate either finished result.

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