vox-director

# Vox Director Turn a one-line topic into a finished **Vox-style paper-collage video**: a bold, punchy, narrated explainer/ad where each beat is a torn-paper collage poster that comes alive, with voice-over, music and captions. Runs on **one Atlas Cloud API key** + local **ffmpeg**. The look is the modern editorial paper-collage popularized by Vox explainers and creators like Stav Zilber / rom1trs: hand-cut paper cut-outs, torn edges, tape, halftone dots, newspaper clippings, bold flat color per beat, big cut-out headlines. ## The core idea (read this first) The Vox collage look and the collage motion are **two different steps**: 1. **The look is born in the IMAGE step.** Each beat is a finished collage *poster* made by a text-to-image model. All the collage DNA (torn paper, cut-outs, halftone, bold color, headline text) lives in that image. If the image isn't a rich collage, nothing downstream will save it. 2. **The motion is added after.** By default an AI video model animates the whole poster (the "living poster" path — simple, automated). For dramatic *piece-by-piece* assembly you cut the poster into parts and drive them with the local keyframe engine (advanced path). Everything hinges on the prompts. **Before writing any image or video prompt, read `references/prompt-guide.md`** — it has the exact prompt structures that make the difference between "a real Vox collage" and "a moving PowerPoint". ## Prerequisites (check, don't skip) - `echo "${ATLASC...