Work the graph directly when you need repeat generation, variations, or exact control of every node. Storyteller calls the same engine when it needs an asset or a shot, so both paths produce the same registered Takes and the same lineage.
A real view of 9Miho's generation engine: pinned character and prop revisions, corpus-grounded Direction, generation, review, and the finished take in one working graph.
View at full resolution↗Recorded after Open Road was finished. The same graph selects a different revision of an asset and produces a different shot from it. Nothing was authored twice.
One uninterrupted move begins beside the couple and expands into an aerial coastal reveal. The move was declared as camera intent before the run — start, path, and where it lands — and the couple and the car entered it pinned to approved revisions.
Pin the character and vehicle revisions, let the Assistant structure a Direction, run the selected Video Variant, and review the result in the Viewer. Edited from a real 9Miho Canvas session.
The first shot can be luck. Production starts at the second one, and everything that makes the second one possible has to be in place before it exists.