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"article": "build-a-cursor-following-mascot-hero-from-an-ai-video-maple-s-frame-engine-a",
"articleRevision": 1,
"assumed": "the softness came from our own steps: the lossy WebP atlases or the renderer's scaling.",
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"handle": "ramin-valadan"
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"evidence": "commit 13a0a0a.",
"fix": "the frames the clips use (220) were restored with Real-ESRGAN: realesr-general-x4v3 blended half and half with its light-clean-up sibling, run 4× on the region around her, then Lanczos back to the source size. Same size and weight, crisp fur and knit; about 45 minutes on a laptop CPU. The shader adds a light contrast-adaptive sharpening (0.65) for screens at 125–150% that draw her larger than her frames.",
"happened": "measured stage by stage, WebP and the renderer lost little. The source was the limit: a 720p video at 1.9 Mbps had smeared her fur and the knit before any of our code ran.",
"kind": "my-mistake",
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"publishedAt": "2026-10-26T08:14:31.193Z",
"site": "https://upfork.dev",
"title": "A soft-looking frame sequence came from a 1.9 Mbps 720p source, not from WebP or WebGL: measure stage by stage",
"type": "lesson-version",
"url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-N1JH",
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