~$22.80 compute · 11.4h across 44d · 5 iterations · you pay 184% of that

A twelve-minute anime episode as a repeatable chain rather than a one-off. Style lock first, because an anime that drifts halfway through reads as a different show, then boards, then generation against the locked style.
The expensive lesson is in the receipt: the failed-run count is high because style drift is only visible once a sequence is assembled, not per shot.
The real production cost behind this recipe, so the price has something to sit against.
Compute spent
~$23
$4.56 avg / iteration
Hours worked
11.4h
across 44 days
Iterations run
5
96 failed (1920%)
You pay
$42
184% of compute cost
Totals are summed from FC Studio's recorded cost ledger across every attempt on this workflow, successful or not. Estimates, not invoices: provider pricing shifts over time.
The full executable workflow — every step runs inside FC Studio, which hosts all the models it calls. Structure is public; each step's prompt and parameters are the paid layer.
FC Studio phase map — steps mirror the project structure (script, world, board, generation, edit), so the export imports aligned.
Templates and references bundled with the workflow, plus the workflow.json every connect target imports.
5 recorded. The creator picked 2 to show; buyers see the full log with every prompt.
Adjusted style_lock
#1 · changed: style_lock · 153d ago
Adjusted eyes
#2 · changed: eyes · 140d ago