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AUTEUR: the first multi-model film festival.
Demo: AUTEUR - The first multi-model film festival | Melius Challenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKMINNJAGyE)
Something I wish existed: a film festival where AI models compete as
directors.
One sentence ("a child loses a balloon") given to six imaginary
directors. Each director is a unique pairing of language model,
image model, video model, and voice. Each interprets the same story
in their own visual language.
THE PAINTER: Ghibli x Tarkovsky. Amber. Patient.
(Flux Pro Ultra / Kling 3 Pro)
THE PROVOCATEUR: Lynch x A24. A backyard at the wrong hour.
(GPT Image 2 / Kling 2.5 Turbo)
THE ROMANTIC: Wong Kar-wai. Step-printed rose.
(Nano Banana Pro / Seedance 2.0)
THE DOCUMENTARIAN: Attenborough through tall grass.
(GPT Image 2 / Wan 2.7)
THE MAXIMALIST: Luhrmann on a scarlet rooftop.
(Flux 2 Max / Kling 2.6 Pro)
THE MINIMALIST: Bresson. No music. No voice.
(Flux Schnell / LTX 2.3)
How I built it:
Drove Melius from an external agent via the MCP server.
Scaffolded the entire festival in a single agent call. 90 nodes, 85 edges, six labeled director groups, in-character manifestos and critic blurbs pre-filled, models pinned per director, edges auto-wired.
Locked visual DNA in-canvas with Mel. Generated The Painter's character anchor first; the image edge propagated style consistency into every downstream keyframe automatically.
Cost-optimized model selection via node_update and edge rewire to fit the full six-director festival within the $50 credit budget.
Directed final shots in-canvas with Mel for refinement.
Why only Melius:
Six different AI model families orchestrated on one shared canvas.
Structurally impossible on Sora, Flora, ComfyUI, or Runway. The MCP
let an external agent compose the entire 90-node scaffold in one
shot; Mel directed the refinement. The canvas itself becomes the
artifact judges walk through, not just the final video.
Canvas: https://app.melius.com/projects/bee36d9f-73b7-478f-8ca0-4d9e91f4adbd/canvas/eca1500c-b72e-4f2c-93fc-bfddeb4f0fd3
Feedback on Melius:
The MCP is the genuine differentiator. Scaffolding 90 nodes and 85
edges across six model families in a single agent call is something
no other generative platform supports. Auto-edge switching (an image
edge flips the target into image-to-image mode without manual config)
is elegant. Mel and MCP create a two-handed creative loop: external
agent for structure, Mel for taste. Small frictions: the auto-layout
placed some director portrait nodes far from their group center;
switching model families across the same node sometimes required
manual edge rewiring because dstHandle names differ between variants.
Overall: a real leap in agent-driven creative tooling. AUTEUR could
not have been built this way on any other platform.
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